Extraordinary Chambers for the Judgment of Hussein Habré Former President of the Republic of Chad

Mouhamed BACHIR DIOP

Abstract In August 2011 and January 2012, a Senegalese court of appeal refused to rule on two requests for extradition from Belgium because the legal documents were not in order. In both cases, the Senegalese government had not apparently transmitted the intact Belgian legal documents to the court. Belgium submitted a fourth request for extradition to the Senegalese authorities in January 2012 but this request has not yet been transmitted to the courts. No progress was made in the case until Macky Sall’s victory against Wade in the presidential election in March 2011. The new Senegalese government quickly announced that it planned to pursue Habré in Senegal rather than extradite him to Belgium and took measures to that effect, including by signing the recent agreement with the AU.

Keywords: African Chambers, judgment, Hussiene Habre, dakar.