UN Committee against Torture publishes findings on Cameroon
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The findings contain the Committee’s main concerns and recommendations on each country’s implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Key highlights include:
The Committee was alarmed by the numerous alleged acts of torture and ill-treatment, summary executions, murders and mass graves, forced displacements, enforced disappearances, abductions, arbitrary and prolonged detention without charge or judicial process, incommunicado detention in unofficial places, and sexual and gender-based violence, committed by defence and security forces, the Rapid Intervention Battalion, the police and gendarmerie forces in the context of counter-insurgency operations and by non-State armed groups in the Far-North, North-West and South-West regions. The Committee urged Cameroon to ensure that such allegations are investigated promptly, thoroughly, and impartially by an independent authority, those responsible are identified, prosecuted, and punished, and victims have access to effective remedies and full reparation.
The Committee was concerned about reports of intimidation, threats, harassment, excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests and detentions, prosecutions, including by military courts, torture and ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial executions of human rights defenders, civil society members, journalists, political opponents, and peaceful demonstrators. The Committee requested that Cameroon take necessary steps to guarantee that these individuals are adequately protected from human rights violations that may occur due to their activities, all such violations are thoroughly and impartially investigated, those responsible are tried and convicted, and that victims or their families receive compensation.
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