On July 15, advocates and activists from all over Cameroon gathered together for the sixth annual Human Rights Defenders Day. The event is organised annually as a protest against violence and persistent abuses of human rights in Cameroon, and a commemoration of the assassination of Eric Ohena Lembembe, the executive director of the LGBT advocacy…
In Cameroon, like many other African countries, it is illegal to have gay sex. Article 347-1 of the 2016 Penal Code prohibits sexual relations with a person of the same sex with a penalty of between six months to five years imprisonment and a fine. This law has been enforced in many ways — arrests,…
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