Schlagwort: Amnesty International

In response to a statement by Madagascar’s Prime Minister last night denouncing the severe overcrowding, prolonged pretrial detention and other violations of human rights in the country’s prisons, Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa said:

Following the security forces’ use of firearms to quell a riot yesterday evening in Cameroon’s largest prison, Kondengui in the capital Yaoundé, Marie-Evelyne Petrus Barry, Amnesty International West and Central Africa Director said: