Protect Democratic Values and Stop Inviting African Dictators to the United States of America.
Despite its worldwide reputation as a champion of democracy, freedom, and human rights, the United States—at its African Leaders Summit in August 2014—welcomed some of the most brutal dictators of the African continent.
In its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the US Department of State has consistently noted that Chad’s government under Idriss Deby and its agents, including security forces, are responsible for arbitrary or unlawful deprivation of life, rape, torture, politically motivated and arbitrary arrests, detention in inhuman conditions, denial of fair public trials, widespread corruption, and restricted freedom of speech, press, assembly, and movement. Moreover, arbitrar