10 members of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, yesterday were sentenced to death by the Chad government on terror charges.
The country where the sect operates from has secured insignificant prosecutions even though it regularly arrests Boko Haram fighters.
After a three-day trial in the capital N’Djamena, the 10 were convicted over their roles in twin attacks on the capital in June, which killed at least 38.
BBC reports that the attacks were the first by the Nigerian-based group in Chad, which hosts the headquarters of a regional force set up to fight the militants.
In July, Chad reintroduced the death penalty for acts of terror. The men were found guilty of charges including criminal conspiracy, killings, willful destruction with explosives, fraud, illegal possessions of arms and ammunition, and using psychotropic substances, according to chief prosecutor Bruno Mahouli Louapambe.
The trial which would have lasted eight days, was sped up due to security reasons and moved on Thursday to an undisclosed secret location,” a judicial source told AFP.
Among those convicted was Mahamat Mustapha, aka Bana Fanaye, the man described as the “mastermind” of the attack by Chad’s Interior Minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid.
Chad has banned people from wearing the full-face veil following the bombings.
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