Cameroonian man sentenced to 36 months in prison for homosexuality
Cameroonian human rights organisations Association for the Defense of Homosexuals (ADEFHO) and Teenagers Against HIV/AIDS (SID’ADO) are reporting that Mbede Roger Jean-Claude has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for homosexuality.
Cameroonian human rights organisations Association for the Defense of Homosexuals (ADEFHO) and Teenagers Against HIV/AIDS (SID’ADO) are reporting that Mbede Roger Jean-Claude has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for homosexuality. He was entrapped and then arrested by police.
On April 28 2011, a young man named MBEDE Roger Jean-Claude was sentenced to 36 months in prison for homosexuality by the Court of First Instance of Yaounde administrative center. According to informations we have so far everything has gone from a text message sent to a third party, in which Roger told his flame and requested an appointment. The appointment fixed on March 2nd 2011 in a famous spot in the city of Yaounde has proven to be an ambush as he arrived at the meeting place Roger was arrested by elements of the SED (Secretary of State for defense).
Having confessed his homosexuality, Roger said he had not been tortured, he spent 07 days in the gendarmerie of the lake (Yaoundé). On March 09 2011 Roger has been place under provisional mandate of custody and taken to the Yaoundé Central Prison. He appeared before the court of first instance of Yaoundé administrative center on March 10 and March 24 and April 14 and was finally sentenced in April 28, 2011 to 36 months in prison for homosexuality by the Court of First Instance of Yaounde administrative center.
Roger is currently receiving antibiotics prescribed by the prison infirmary although he had no information about his real state of health. He faces problems of nutrition, and is the victim of threats and homophobia. He spends his nights on the floor because he did not pay the cell. He is in a lamentable psychological state.
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* This entry is from African Activist, available at http://www.africanactivist.org/2011/05/cameroonian-man-sentenced-to-36-months.html
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