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Extracts form  Amnesty International Yearly  report-2001

Torture, ill-treatment and life-threatening prison conditions persisted. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture confirmed that torture was widespread and systematic.
 In February the UN Special Rapporteur on torture published a report in which he described the practice of torture in Cameroon as ''systematic and widespread''. In November 2000 the UN Committee against Torture confirmed the Special Rapporteur's assessment and called for ''energetic investigations into all allegations of human rights violations and torture'' and ''a publicly accessible register of detainees''.

· On 14 September Mathew Titiahonjo Mboh died in Bafoussam prison, .. after being denied access to medical treatment. He was a member of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC).... He had been arrested in May with nine other SCNC supporters in Ndop, North-West Province, and held without charge or trial. photo
Opposition leaders from English-speaking areas of Cameroon were arrested as suspected secessionists and detained without charge or trial.
· From a group of 36 prisoners convicted in October 1999, 18 remained in prison, all held at the Central Prison, Nkondengui, in Yaoundé. The charges against them, including murder and robbery, were in connection with armed attacks in North-West Province in March 1997. Their trial by military tribunal was unfair and they had no right of appeal to a higher or independent court. Several were seriously ill as a result of medical neglect. In May Philip Tete had a stroke and was left partly paralyzed after being denied timely hospital treatment. In December student Julius Ngu Ndi was reportedly close to losing his sight from being detained in unhygienic conditions and almost permanently in the dark.
· Three more SCYL supporters - Richard Lukong , George Yuvenyu and Mevanga Weikam - were arrested in Nkwen in early November 1999 and remained in detention in Bamenda…..
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