Cameroon: Stop Threats to Lawyers
4,616 views · Published 13 February 2013 · 2:26 · Indexed 29 September 2026
Channel: Human Rights Watch · 2013 · News & Politics
(Nairobi, February 13, 2013) -- The government of Cameroon should immediately take action against a series of death threats made over the last four months to two lawyers who represent clients accused of homosexual conduct, Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter to President Paul Biya. Alice Nkom and Michel Togué, Cameroonian human rights lawyers, began receiving death threats in October 2012, in the form of emails and text messages, assailing the lawyers for their work defending clients charged with homosexuality. Consensual same-sex conduct is criminalized under the Cameroonian penal code, and at least 28 people have been prosecuted under the law since 2010. Nkom and Togué are among the only lawyers courageous enough to take up these cases in a country where homophobia is pervasive. http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/12/cameroon-stop-turning-blind-eye-death-threats
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