259 men, mostly young people, were released from prison on Saturday 8 April. They were pardoned by the Head of State, Mahamat Déby, on 27 March.
The 259 men detained for five months were given a "certificate of release" They were arrested on October 20, during this day of demonstration against the bloody repressed government, which the Chadians have renamed "Black Thursday" On Wednesday, 380 rebels of the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT) had found freedom after being pardoned.