Gendarmes and other security personnel at the SED used torture, including severe beatings and near-drowning, as well as other ill-treatment to force suspects to confess to crimes, or to humiliate and punish them.While the government maintained it did not tolerate crimes committed by security forces, it failed to demonstrate progress in investigating and punishing them.Armed separatist groups have killed, tortured, assaulted, and kidnapped dozens of people, including students, teachers, clergy, and administrative and traditional authorities.On February 16, a group of armed separatists abducted 170 students, mostly girls under 18, a teacher, and two guards from a boarding school in Kumbo, North-West region. On 30 October, during fights between military men and armed groups, the Integrated Health Facility in Tole (South-West) was burnt down. The government denied a Human Rights Watch researcher entry to the country in April.The Islamist armed group Boko Haram carried out over 100 attacks in the Far North region since January 2019 killing more than 100 civilians. It ranks 152 out of 180 countries in the 2018 Transparency International corruption perceptions index, and 166 out of 190 economies in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 report.

The commission was due to submit its report by May 24, but authorities have made no information about the findings public.On April 12 in what appears to be an attempt to curb reports of abuse by its security forces, the government denied a Human Rights Watch researcher access to the country.
A trial started in August, as they remained in detention on politically motivated charges.On April 5, the Ministry of the Territorial Administration issued a press release banning a week of demonstrations planned by the MRC, accusing the party of destabilizing the country.
Cameroon security forces have used In January, MRC leader Maurice Kamto and some of his closest allies were arrested with another 200 MRC members and supporters after they held country-wide protests. He was released on November 1. In September, a local radio in Buea (South-West) was attacked and the radio presenter, Mary Namondo, was abducted. If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you. Armed groups and government forces committed widespread human rights abuses across Cameroon throughout 2019. The number of internet users in Cameroon increased by 570 thousand (+7.8%) between 2019 and 2020. the president of the Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists was abducted by separatist fighters in the city of Bamenda after he criticized their call for families not to send their children to school. Armed separatists have used schools as bases, deploying fighters and weapons and holding people hostage in and near them.On June 18, separatists kidnapped at least 40 people, including women and children, beat and robbed them in Bafut, North-West region. There were 7.87 million internet users in Cameroon in January 2020.. DAILY PRESS REVIEW CAMEROONIAN PRESS REVIEW OF AUGUST 27, 2020. le 27.08.2020; Go to Press review. The dialogue ended with the adoption of a special status for the two Anglophone regions and the release of hundreds of political prisoners, including Maurice Kamto, leader of the opposition Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC), and other people arrested in connection with the unrest in the North-West and South-West regions.Responding to increasing attacks by armed separatist groups, security forces killed scores of people, burned hundreds of homes and other property in villages and cities across the North-West and South-West regions, and tortured suspected separatists in detention.On February 6, security forces, including soldiers of the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), stormed the market in Bole Bakundu village, South-West region, killing up to 10 men.On April 4, Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and BIR members carried out a deadly attack on the North-West region village of Meluf, killing five civilian males, including one with a mental disability, and wounding one woman.

They were released the following day.On June 28, armed separatists beat and kidnapped John Fru Ndi, a well-known Cameroonian politician, from his home in Bamenda, North-West region. In September, a video was posted on social media showing hooded men beheading a woman who worked as a wardress at the Bamenda Central Prison.

In December, health actors recorded three attacks on healthcare facilities in Ekondo-Titi (South-West), Idenau (South-West) and BuaBua (North-West).


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