It is the first run through an African Union-upheld court has attempted a previous ruler for charged human rights mishandle.
The prosecutor at the court in Senegal's capital Dakar has asked for a lifelong incarceration for Mr Habre, who declines to perceive its authenticity.
The ex-president is blamed for requesting the murdering of 40,000 individuals amid his standard in the 1980s, charges he denies.
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Mr Habre as often as possible disturbed procedures amid his trial, yelling mishandle and calling the procedure "a sham", and in the long run being conveyed into the court by security watches in the wake of declining to show up.
His faultfinders named him "Africa's Pinochet" as a result of the infamous abominations purportedly dedicated amid his eight-year standard from 1982 to 1990.
Habre was captured in Senegal, where he was banished, in 2013.
A considerable lot of his asserted casualties pursued a crusade for him to face equity since his topple in 1990.
In 2005, a court in Belgium issued a warrant for his capture, asserting all inclusive purview in any case, after Senegal alluded the issue to the African Union, the AU requested that Senegal attempt Mr Habre "for Africa".
In 2013, a court in Chad sentenced him to death in absentia for wrongdoings against humankind.
Who is Hissene Habre?
• Born in 1942 to ethnic Toubou herders in northern Chad
• Given grant to think about political science in France
• First became obvious in 1974 when his agitators caught three European prisoners to emancipate for cash and arms
• Seized power in 1982 purportedly with the assistance of the CIA expelled by current President Idriss Deby in 1990
• Accused of methodicallly mistreating bunches he doubted
• A previous swimming pool was utilized as an underground jail where survivors say they were subjected to electric stuns, close asphyxia and "supplice des baguettes", when their heads were pressed between sticks
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