Nigeria: How Cameroon Torture, Abuse and Forcefully Return Thousands of Nigerian Refugees - HRW

27 September 2017

Cameroon's military has carried out a mass forced return of 100,000 Nigerian asylum seekers in an effort to stem the spread of Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Wednesday.

The deportations defy the UN refugee agency's plea not to return anyone to northeast Nigeria "until the security and human rights situation has improved considerably," and leaves deportees facing spiralling violence, displacement and destitution.

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