Presidential in Cameroon: Lawyer Denounces "a Situation of Lawlessness" 10 Days After Arrests

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In Cameroon, 10 days after a Constitutional Council hearing on the presidential elections of 12 October 2025, some 20 people are still in detention, held in custody, according to the lawyer group Sylvain Souop. "There are about 54 people who have been placed in police custody", assured a few days earlier at RFI Master Hippolyte Meli. This Friday, he says that "there are sick people among these people" and is worried about their fate.

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The political climate in Cameroon is undergoing a new tense turn after the controversial decision of the Constitutional Council on 5 August 2025. In an official communiqué, the Political Alliance for Change (APC) accuses this institution, in collaboration with the RDPC, the Minister of Territorial Administration and the electoral body ELECAM, of having arbitrarily excluded from the presidential elections of 12 October 2025 the candidate whom it …