BACKGROUND: In July 2007, I profiled a French charity group, called the Arche de Zoé, that was planning on evacuating children from the western Sudanese region of Darfur to France, to be taken in by French famlies, and eventually adopted as French children.
On October 25, 2007, authorities in Chad stopped a plane full of 103 children from taking off towards France. They arrested, tried and convicted six members of the Arche de Zoe organization for child traffiking. They were transferred to France to serve out their sentece of eight years of prison with hard labor. On January 28, 2008, a French judge converted the sentence into eight years of prison in France.
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TRANSCRIPT: French hearing to convert the sentence:
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This piece aired January 14, 2008, on RFI. Producer: Sarah Elzas
Recorded in Créteil, France
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