Detained Chadian opposition leader Succes Masra ends hunger strike
Chadian opposition leader and former Prime Minister Succès Masra, who has been in detention since mid-May, has ended his hunger strike after about a week of fasting, his lawyers announced Monday.
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00:00Chadian opposition leader and former Prime Minister Suksu Masra, who has been in detention since mid-May,
00:06has ended his hunger strike after about a week of fasting, his lawyers announced on Monday.
00:12Masra, arrested on May 16th, announced his hunger strike last Tuesday in a letter made public by his lawyers.
00:20He is being prosecuted for incitement to hatred and revolt, formation and complicity of armed gangs,
00:26complicity in murder, arson and desecretion of graves on May 14th.
00:32Fourteen people, mostly women and children, were killed in Mandakau in the Logon Occidental region,
00:38southwest Chad, according to the Chadian justice system, which accuses Masra of having provoked this massacre through one of his public statements.
00:48Suksu Masra, originally from the south of the country, enjoys widespread popularity among the predominantly Christian and southern populations,
00:55who feel marginalized by the predominantly Muslim regime in Jamena.
