Cameroon – Biya’s prisoners: at the SED, a slow death before silence

At the State Secretariat for Defense (SED) in Yaoundé, detainees grow old, fall ill and sometimes die without standing trial. The administrative unit of the Ministry of Defense is not officially a prison, but it holds Anglophone separatists, opposition figures and former senior officials. The article describes them as men who have become useless or troublesome to Paul Biya’s government. It also refers to a Human Rights Watch report published in August 2019.