Human rights defenders, citizens’ movements, unionists and journalists critical of the government are facing growing danger as the government increasingly uses repressive laws and the intelligence service to muzzle critics and hamper their work, Amnesty International reveals in a new report published today. ‘Between repression and recession. The rising cost of dissent in Chad’ documents how the authorities have over the recent years responded to growing public discontent, with ever greater restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.
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