Anglophone detainees in Kondengui on hunger strike

Anglophones arrested in North West and South West regions in the wake of the ongoing Anglophone crisis are staging a mass indefinite hunger strike aimed at protesting  against “illegal arrest, deplorable prison conditions and an end to the practice of holding hundreds of detainees without charge.” In a letter dated June 5, addressed to the Yaounde Central Prison Superintendent, the detainees asked why they are still held without charge despite the United Nation’s call for the liberation of all arrested in relation to the strike actions in English speaking Cameroon. The detainees equally decried the fact that they have been…