Souleymane Guengueng is Founder of the Chadian Association of Victims (AVCRP). Falsely accused of supporting Habré’s opposition, he almost died of dengue fever during two years of mistreatment in Habré's prisons.

Freed as Habré fled the country, Souleymane and other former prisoners founded the AVCRP, which gathered testimonies from victims, widows and orphans, hoping to use them to bring Habré to justice and win compensation.

Since then he has campaigned tirelessly to bring Hissène Habré to justice, although he was fired from his job and forced into exile after threats from Habré’s accomplices who remain in Chad. As The New York Times said in its moving portrait of Guengueng, "on a continent where ordinary men are tortured, killed and forgotten without a second thought, Mr. Guengueng, has done something extraordinary: fought back.

After being unjustly imprisoned and tortured for two years in the late 1980's, he spent the next decade gathering testimony from fellow victims and their families….“he has become perhaps one of the most famous torture survivors” in Africa. France’s Libération said, “a surprising tug of war pits this modest civil servant against the ex-dictator who bathed his country in blood.”