Cameroon court has released 12 of 13 arrested in Sept. 30 raid

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12/23/2024

The court in Douala, Cameroon, has now released all but one of the 13 people who were arrested on homosexuality-related charges after a Sept. 30 police raid on the offices of Alternatives Cameroon, which combats HIV and advocates for LGBTI rights. During a hearing on Dec. 18, the judges ordered the provisional release of two of the three remaining prisoners — Oumarou Ousmanou and Fotie Zidane, peer educators for Alternatives Cameroon. A request for their provisional release pending trial had been denied in November. The youths’ families paid 200,000 CFA francs (about $318) to cover administrative costs of their release. The remaining prisoner at New Bell Prison is Alternatives Cameroon psychological counselor Denis Watonwa, who is accused of having sexual relations with a boy at the group’s offices. That unnamed youth, who accused Watonwa of luring him into a sexual relationship, told the court through his lawyers that he did not know Zidane, Oumarou or former detainee Hermine Ngo Ndaptie.

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