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Souleymane Guengueng

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Souleymane Guengueng is a Chadian torture victim and human rights activist who was instrumental in bringing legal action against the former dictator Hissène Habré. He was born in 1952.[1]

In 2006 he and more than 90 others testified against Habré in a court in Senegal.[2]

He plays himself in the 2007 movie The Dictator Hunter by director Klaartje Quirijns. He spent three years of his life in prison.[3]

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  1. ^ He Helped Topple a Dictator. In New York, He’s Another Face in the Crowd.
  2. ^ Talking Justice: The Long Road to the Extraordinary African Chambers
  3. ^ Victim to victor: the story of Souleymane Guengueng
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