Chad President Idriss Déby Itno on Monday granted an official pardon for six French aid workers jailed in December for abducting children from the landlocked Central African country, Chad state radio said. The six members of the Zoe’s Ark charity were sentenced to eight years’ hard labour by a Chadian court late last year.
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/ 13 January 2008
Six French charity workers convicted of child kidnapping in Africa will go before a court near Paris on Monday, as judges seek to adapt their Chadian sentences to French law. Twenty days after the Zoe’s Ark team were given eight years hard labourCreteil prosecutor Jean-Jacques Bosc has already said he will seek eight years imprisonment.