Souleymane Guengueng

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]

References

External links

'He Bore Up Under Torture. Now He Bears Witness', New York Times, March 31, 2001

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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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