Routine Torture, Incommunicado Detention in Cameroon - HRW
Authorities have tortured and held incommunicado detainees at a detention facility in Yaoundé. Security forces at the State Defense Secretariat have severely beaten and used near-drowning to extract confessions from detainees suspected of ties to armed separatist groups, Human Right Group have said.
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