{"id":179351,"date":"2024-08-27T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-disappeared-activist-resurfaces-with-marks-of-torture\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:41:06","slug":"cameroon-disappeared-activist-resurfaces-with-marks-of-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-disappeared-activist-resurfaces-with-marks-of-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: &#8216;Disappeared&#8217; Activist Resurfaces With Marks of Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Release Cotta, Ensure Access to Medical Care, Investigate Abuse Allegations<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon&#8217;s<\/a> authorities and security forces forcibly disappeared Ramon Cotta, a social media activist, and apparently tortured him, Human Rights Watch said today. Cotta, born Yves Kibouy Bershu, has been living in Gabon for the past 10 years, where he also went by the name of Steve Akam. He is known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/login?redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40ramoncotta2&amp;lang=en&amp;enter_method=mandatory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok videos<\/a> in which he criticizes the Cameroonian authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"116\">On August 20, 2024, lawyers representing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408270089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Release Cotta, Ensure Access to Medical Care, Investigate Abuse Allegations Cameroon&#8217;s authorities and security forces forcibly disappeared Ramon Cotta, a social media activist, and apparently tortured him, Human Rights Watch said today. Cotta, born Yves Kibouy Bershu, has been living in Gabon for the past 10 years, where he also went by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651240:2e45962aa0443ad704dac05d4958b7c4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[8956,258,256,4698,377,33678,9877,257,18730,254,265],"class_list":["post-179351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-disappeared","tag-marks","tag-news","tag-resurfaces","tag-south-africa-today","tag-torture"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651240:2e45962aa0443ad704dac05d4958b7c4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}