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 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Chad's former dictator was freed Friday after a Senegalese court said it had no jurisdiction to rule on his extradition to Belgium to stand trial for war crimes.
Presiding Judge Lamine Coulibaly said the court "was not competent to rule on the extradition order" for the former dictator Hissene Habre. It was not clear if any other court in Senegal would take up the case.
Habre was not in court Friday. His defense attorney El Hadj Diouf said he accompanied Habre to his home in the seaside capital, Dakar, the city where he has lived since he was ousted by rebels in his homeland in 1990. Habre had been jailed since his arrest Nov. 15.
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