{"id":238062,"date":"2026-07-03T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-the-archbishop-of-douala-denounces-inhumane-prisons-and-a-corrupt-justice-system\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:33:35","slug":"cameroon-the-archbishop-of-douala-denounces-inhumane-prisons-and-a-corrupt-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-the-archbishop-of-douala-denounces-inhumane-prisons-and-a-corrupt-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: The Archbishop of Douala Denounces &#8211; &#8216;Inhumane Prisons and a Corrupt Justice System&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Yaound\u00e9 \u2014 Forced disappearances, arbitrary detention and inhumane prison conditions are among the grave abuses denounced by Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala in a pastoral Letter on prison conditions published at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Recalling the teaching of Jesus -&#8220;I was in prison and you came to visit me&#8221; (Mt 25:36)&#8211;Archbishop Kleda explains: &#8220;This letter is intended as an act of truth and pastoral charity, born not out of a spirit of controversy, but from a sense of duty and urgent compassion&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030437.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>Yaound\u00e9 \u2014 Forced disappearances, arbitrary detention and inhumane prison conditions are among the grave abuses denounced by Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala in a pastoral Letter on prison conditions published at the end of June. Recalling the teaching of Jesus -&#8220;I was in prison and you came to visit me&#8221; (Mt 25:36)&#8211;Archbishop Kleda explains: &#8220;This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,10179,4698,377,11894,8435,560,27333,6852,257,7398,254,7232],"class_list":["post-238062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-archbishop","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-corrupt","tag-denounces","tag-douala","tag-inhumane","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-prisons","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238062","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=238062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}