The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights requested on Wednesday better access to Cameroon’s restive separatist regions and called for revisions to an anti-terror law that rights groups say has been used to silent dissent.<\/p>\n
Factions of secessionist militias have been battling government troops in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions since 2017, leading to thousands of deaths and displacing nearly 800,000 people.<\/p>\n
“I have called on the government to facilitate humanitarian access to areas affected by conflict,” Volker Turk said after a two-day visit to the Central African country.<\/p>\n
“I have also urged the government to revise the 2014 anti-terrorism law in this regard,” he said.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International has described that law, which mandates the death penalty, as repressive and says it\u00a0curtails rights protected in Cameroon’s constitution.<\/p>\n
In a 2022\u00a0report\u00a0Amnesty found that the majority of people jailed from the Anglophone regions had been sentenced under the law.<\/p>\n
In 2017 a\u00a0journalist\u00a0was sentenced to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges under the legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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