Overview:

• Intrusive informational requirements include listing details of the members of the applicant organisation.

• Wearing of religious clothing, primarily the burqa, is restricted.

• The retributions of fines and imprisonment for unregistration are serious violations of religious freedom.

• The rule of mandatory registration contravenes the Bielefeldt provision.

• The two-step registration process may be established as a precaution could be easily misused.

Positive elements:

• Horizontal recognition is in effect.

• The Office of the Director of Religious and Traditional Affairs is an established procedure for ensuring religious freedoms are upheld; although there are ongoing structural issues with the politicisation of this office, this remains a receptive attribute of the overall Chadian system.

Recommendations:

• Dissolve existent restrictions in registration process.

• Making the Office of the Director of Religious and Traditional Affairs independent from government would make the Chadian system more dynamic.

• Revoke mandatory registration rule in order to move to receptivity.