Cameroon: exiled opponent Issa Tchiroma Bakary files a complaint in France against President Paul Biya
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The former presidential candidate announced on Friday that he had filed two complaints with the Paris judicial court, invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction.
The former presidential candidate announced on Friday that he had filed two complaints with the Paris judicial court, invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction. He denounces the repression of demonstrations against the presidential election of October 12, 2025. The former minister, now in exile in Gambia, maintains that several thousand Cameroonians are still detained in various prisons in the country in conditions that he describes as “illegal” and contrary to fundamental rights.
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