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Hundreds of people are affected. Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns of the fate of English-speaking Cameroonian nationals, asylum seekers across the Atlantic, expelled between 2019 and 2021, who were tortured in Cameroon and mistreated in the United States.
According to the human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, which published a detailed report, a few days ago, nearly a hundred Cameroonian asylum seekers, expelled from the United States between 2019 and 2021, suffered serious violations of their rights.
Joined by RFI, Lauren Seibert, researcher at HRW, participated in this survey.
” AT their return they were the subject of several human rights violations such as arrests, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, rape… And even abuse against their relatives.
The majority are from the North West and English South West regions. Their initial flight from the country was for reasons related to the crisis in the English-speaking regions of Cameroonfor reasons of persecution… “, she specifies before adding that the United States are also accused of human rights violations.
« We have asylum seekers who have told us of their experiences of violence committed, including by immigration service agents, in the United States. By returning Cameroonians, facing persecution, torture and other serious harm, the United States violated international refugee law ».
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