profiling of all prisoners of conscience
“We’re campaigning to create Global awareness on the Human Rights Abuses committed in Cameroon on Prisoners of conscience.”
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Images of prisoners of conscience
Arrested and locked up in one of the bunkers in the CCameroon prison. Fell sick and was not grante access to medical assistance . When he was at the verge, they rushed him to the hospital where he died chained to his sick bed.
Defend Prisoners of Conscience and Support Torture Victims.
OVERCROWDED PRISONS
These figures are those we are aware of in these prisons
Bamenda Centra
l Prison was built for 500 inmates. It now has between 1500 and 2000 inmates
The Yaounde central prison was constructed in 1968 for 1000 inmates.
Today, it has more than 4000
The central prison in Buea,
was built for 700 people, but currently holds over 2,000 – with the majority in pretrial detention.
Douala was built to host 800 inmates but today, it counts more than 4000 A quote from the Cameroon tribune of 2006 reads
“The Douala Central prison (New Bell Prison) is no doubt facing problems similar to that of other prisons in Cameroon. One problem stands out clear, that of over population. It was built several years back estimated to cater for 700 inmates but presently, it takes about 3466 inmates”.(Cameroon Tribune (2006)
With the Anglophone Crisis that started in 2016 there has been a massive increase in the numbers of the inmates in these prisons due to the rampant arbitrary arrest and detention without trial for years.