Opposition leader Chad, previously sentenced to 20 years imprisonment to incite violence Politics News

Massra denies the charges against him, which relate to clashes between communication that left dozens in May.

The former Prime Minister of Chad and the leader of the opposition The success of the pipe He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for spreading the messages of racism and fear of foreigners who incited violence.

Defense lawyer Cadillabay Francis told reporters following a ruling on Saturday in a court in the capital Chadian, Nadgamina, that Marsra would appeal his punishment.

“He was just subjected to uncomfortable insults,” said Francis.

Masra, who was the Prime Minister between January and May last year, is the head of the Transformers Party and severe critic Mesh DebyThe current president of Chad.

He was accused, along with 67 defendants, most of them from the same ethnic group of Nagambay, of causing a clash between shepherds and farmers in May in Logon Oxidental, in the southwest of the Central African country. The fighting left 35 dead people and six others.

Marsra denied the charges against him, which include hate speech, foreign gods and incited a massacre.

Before leaving the court hall on Saturday, he presented a message to his supporters: “Stand constant.” Activists with his party said that they would numb a “private message” later in the day.

The ethnic NGAMBAYE group has a wide popularity among the Christian population and the drawings mostly in the south, whose members feel marginalized by the authorities that are largely dominated by Muslims in Nadqamina.

Masra Chad left after a bloody campaign against his followers in 2022, and only returned under the amnesty agreed in 2024.

He faced Deby in that year Presidential electionsWhich Deby won with more than 61 percent support.

But Massara did not accept the results, claiming that the vote had been forged. He later agreed to be the Prime Minister after signing the reconciliation deal with Deby.

Mesjara strongly opposed the military rulers who arrived in power in Chad in April 2021, after the death of Deby’s father, Idriss Deby Itono, who led the country for 30 years.

Deby took power in 2021 and gave his chairmanship with Parliament Elections earlier this yearWhat he opposed to his eagle and his party.