[2][3] Halimé became the target of repression soon after independence, unlike her PPT female colleague Kalthouma Nguembang.
At the Kela prison, she was regularly tortured by guards through electrocution while French and Israeli army officers supervised.
[3] Lisette, who had been exiled in France, helped bring her to Paris to receive medical treatment.
[1][2] Halimé spent time in a hospital in Côte d'Ivoire, where the president Felix Houphouet-Boigny mandated that her medical care was free.
She also began educating girls in Libya and founded an Islamic school, the Rising New Generation, where she taught religion, home economics, and child care.
[2] She returned to N'Djamena in 1980 with the Popular Armed Forces (FAP) leader Goukouni Oueddei.
[3] In 1993, she participated in the National Sovereign Conference (CNS), and was one of the most fervent defenders of the Arabic language.
On behalf of the association, she was voted among ten women candidates to be a member of the Higher Council of Transition, staying four years.
In June 1996, she ran for parliament as a member of the opposition National Front of Chad party, as it was impossible to run as an independent.