Former Chad president Hissene Habre has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his eight-year rule which began in 1982.
He was sentenced on Monday by the Special African Chamber, created in 2013 by Senegal and the African Union, to life in prison.
The verdict caps a 16-year battle by victims and rights campaigners to bring the former strongman to justice in Senegal, where he fled after being toppled in a 1990 coup in the central African nation.
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