{"id":208047,"date":"2025-09-24T07:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-authorities-must-release-36-protesters-arbitrarily-detained-for-five-years-amid-crackdown-on-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:09:58","slug":"cameroon-authorities-must-release-36-protesters-arbitrarily-detained-for-five-years-amid-crackdown-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-authorities-must-release-36-protesters-arbitrarily-detained-for-five-years-amid-crackdown-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Authorities Must Release 36 Protesters Arbitrarily Detained for Five Years Amid Crackdown on Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Cameroonian authorities must immediately release 36 opposition supporters arbitrarily detained for five years for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and put an end to arbitrary detention in the country, Amnesty International said on the fifth anniversary of their arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">On 22 September 2020, over 500 people were arbitrarily\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/12\/cameroon-arbitrary-detentions-and-military-courts-highlight-the-latest-crackdown-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a>\u00a0for participating in peaceful protests organized by the opposition party \u2018Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon\u2019 (MRC) in several cities across&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509230106.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>The Cameroonian authorities must immediately release 36 opposition supporters arbitrarily detained for five years for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and put an end to arbitrary detention in the country, Amnesty International said on the fifth anniversary of their arrest. On 22 September 2020, over 500 people were arbitrarily\u00a0arrested\u00a0for participating in peaceful protests organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671487:945fef89dfaab2f06705fd879f04e7b5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,18395,7215,4698,377,14409,3707,3575,257,4397,6011,5100,254,5114],"class_list":["post-208047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arbitrarily","tag-authorities","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-crackdown","tag-detained","tag-human","tag-news","tag-protesters","tag-release","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671487:945fef89dfaab2f06705fd879f04e7b5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208047","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=208047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}