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In April 1999, 53 prisoners who had been detained in Nkondengui prison in Yaounde for more than two years in connection with a terrorist attack in Cameroon and 15 others who had been released for probation in 1998, were charged (for murder, attempted murder, strong physical injury, illegal owning of weapons, fire raising and robbing) before a military court where their sentences were handed. More than 60 of them were detained in connection with this attack and during the period of detention 10 of them diedbecause of torture, catastrophic over-population, missing or insufficient sanitary facilities as well as inadequate catering and medical aid. This is how all prisoners and especially political prisoners in Cameroon are treated.

We are calling for solidarity and protest fax action for the freedom of political prisoners who are detained;  from the professional levels of journalists, human rights activists, opposition parties’s members, minority organisations, just to name a few. We place particular attention for the following political prisoners whose future are uncertain:
Maurice Tchambou, Abdoulaye Math, Semdi Soulaye, Abel Acha Apong, Chrispus Kenebie, John Kudi, Jack Njenta, Array Etchu Wilson, and the 22 SCNC (Southern Cameroons National Council) members who have been condemned between 8 years to life imprisonment, just to name a few.

Please make a fax action or write a letter to the addresses below, showing your concern with the following demands:
-      The respect for Human Rights in Cameroon,
-      the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of concience,
- the retrial of the SCNC political prisoners in a civil court of justice,
- the stopping of all unlawful arrests and detentions in the prisons, with unlimited detention periods,
- the amelioration of the prison conditions and also the abolition of torture in the cells and prisons, which still exists;
- the abolition of death penalty.
 

Cameroon Embassy in Bonn
Mr. Jean Melaga
Phone: 0228-356038
Fax: 0228-359058

The Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon
 Mr. Paul Biya
Fax: 00237-203306
e-mail: celcom@camnet.cm
 

Please, also send a copy of your protest letter to The VOICE Africa Forum.

Thanks for solidarity,
Campaign committe for freedom of political prisoners in Cameroon.
 

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More about Cameroon:
speech of the human rights expertAlbert W. Mukongon the human rights week of THE VOICE Africa Forum

press statement regarding political prisoners in Cameroon (German)

foundation of a regional Branch of cameroonian opositional partySocial Democratic Front SDF in Bremen / Oldenburg
 

The VOICE e.V. Africa Forum, Human Rights Group,
Schillergäßchen 5, 07745 Jena, Tel.: 03641-665214 / 449304, Fax:03641-423795 / 420270
E-mail: THE_VOICE_Jena@gmx.de
___________________________________________________________________________Bankverbindung: Kto.Nr.: 0231 633 905, BLZ: 860 100 90, Postbank Leipzig
 
 

The alarming conditions and Human Rights abuses of all prisoners and especially political prisoners in the Cameroon cells has caused the ascentuation of our continues engagement to expose the abuses and fight for the liberation of crimeless detainees.

“Their detention conditions in the prisons in the whole country are extremly hard and life threatening and are often similar to humilitated treatment. The prisons are signed with catastrophic over population, missing or insufficient sanitary facilities as well as inadequate catering and medical aid. The mortal rate among the prisoners is unspokenly high on the ground of such detention conditions” ( amnesty international report 12th February 2000 ).

“The central prison Nkondengui in Yaounde in 1999 was filled with 2,700 prisoners, New Bell in Douala with about 2,500 prisoners. Both prisons are made for maximum 800 prisoners” (amnesty international report 12th February 2000 ).

These are the conditions in which crimeless political prisoners in Cameroon face. Following attacks by using wapons in the North Western province in March 1997 many persons were arrested. During these attacks 10 people died, three police men among them. The government blamed it on the SCNC ( Southern Cameroons National Council ) and their Youth League, SCYL. More than sixty people were taken to Yaounde, the capital, and detained there. Ten prisoners already died because of torture, maltreatmend and absence of medical aid during their detention. In April 1999 fifty three prisoners who had been detained in Kondegui prison in Yaounde for more than two years in connection with this attack, and fifteen other persons who had been released for probation in 1998 were charged for murder, attempted murder, strong physical injury, illegal owning of wapons, fire raicing and robbing before a military court where their sentences were handed.

Those who were sentenced to detention for more than two years were immediately released. Altogether 22 persons stayed detained. They will have to stay in prison between 8 years and lifelong.

We are calling for solidarity and protest fax actions for the freedom of political prisoners who are detained, from the professional level of journalists, human rights activists, opposition parties‘ members, minority organisations, just to name a few. We place particular attention for the following political prisoners whose future are uncertain:
Maurice Tchambou, Abdoulaye Math, Semdi Soulaye, Abel Acha Apong, Chrispus Kenebie, John Kudi, Jack Njenta, Arrey Etchu Wilson, just to name a few.

Please, make a fax action or write a letter showing your concern with the following demands:
+  the respect for Human Rights in Cameroon,
+  the immediate and unconditional release of all nonviolent political prisoners,
+  the retrial of the SCNC political prisoners in a civil court of justice,
+  the stopping of all unlawful arrests and detentions in the prisons, with unlimited detention periods,
+  the amelioration of the prison conditions and also the abolition of torture in the cells and prisons, which still exists;
+  the abolition of death penalty.

Send faxes to the Cameroonian embassy in Bonn(Germany) and also the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon in Yaounde expressing these demands through the following addresses:

Cameroon Embassy in Bonn
Mr. Jean Melaga
Phone: 0228-356038
Fax: 0228-359058

The Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon
 Mr. Paul Biya
Fax: 00237-203306
e-mail: celcom@camnet.cm

Please, also send a copy of your letter of protest to The VOICE Africa Forum.

Thank for solidarity,

Cornelius Yufanyi