235 on death row
12 October 2017. a group of lawyers against the death penalty in Cameroon said, through Agence Press Africa, that the detainees sentenced to death are about 235.
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12 October 2017: a group of lawyers against the death penalty in Cameroon said, through Agence Press Africa, that the detainees sentenced to death are about 235.
More precisely, 21 are in the prison of Bafoussam, 22 in that of Yaoundé-Kodengui, while 3 are in the prison of New-Bell in Douala.
It is however in the northern part of the country that there is the largest number of 189 condemned to death by military jurisdictions.
It is mostly about people related to the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram.
— SOURCES
- https://www.dailynewscameroon.com/235-personnes-condamnees-a-mort-cameroun/
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