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Cameroon

Capital city — Yaoundé

  • Country population

    24,320,000
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    115
    i
    2016
    / ICPR
  • Type of government

    Presidential Republic
  • Human Development Index

    0.518
    i
    2016
    / UNDP
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Ministry of Justice
  • Total number of prisoners

    27,997
    i
    2016
    / ICPR
  • Prison density

    164 %
    i
    2016
    / Ministry of Justice
  • Total number of prison facilities

    79
    i
    2015
  • An NPM has been established

    No
  • Number and percentage of female prisone…

    2.5 %
    i
    2015
    / Ministry of Justice
  • Incarcerated minors

    2.9 %
    i
    2015
    / Mnistry of Justice
  • Untried prisoners

    55.8 %
    i
    2016
    / ICPR
  • Death penalty is abolished

    Yes

    no execution sinc…

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Cameroonian government departments:¶

  • Ministry of Justice, “Report of the Ministry of Justice on the state of human rights in Cameroon in 2015”, October 2016 (in French only).

  • National Institute of Statistics, Report on baseline indicators of the penal system in Cameroon, November 2014 (in French only).

European Union:¶

  • Head of the European Union Delegation to Cameroon, “National Meeting on the Prison Situation: “A Shared Responsibility to Protect the Rights of Prisoners and Preserve Their Dignity””, 27 January 2016 (in French only).

Amnesty International:¶

  • Report on Cameroon 2016/2017

News Articles:¶

  • Cameroon : “I went through hell in prison, but I will continue to fight for my anglophone brothers”“, 20 September 2017 (in French only).

  • At Yaoundé Prison, the lucky sleep sitting down, the others while standing, 15 February 2017 (in French only).

  • Nearly 70 prisons in Cameroon do not have an infirmary, 8 April 2016 (in French only).

  • Cameroon – Prison overcrowding: Maroua Prison suffocating, 31 March 2017 (in French only).

Video:¶

  • Video: plunged into the hell of Yaoundé Central Prison, 16 February 2017 (in French only).
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