Prominent Muslim Scholar and Southern Cameroons activist finally released after a month in detention
The Director of Peace research Center Bamenda was released from detention on 1 Novenber 2019 by the Dictatorial regime in Yaounde.Abdul Karim Ali was taken to the State Defence Secretariat (Secrétariat d’État à la défense, SED) in Yaoundé. His whereabouts were finally made public on September 30 when he was taken before the Yaoundé Military Court and charged with acts of terrorism, financing terrorism, and secession.
This is not the first time Mr Abdul Karim Ali has been apprehended without any justifiable cause.This year he was arrested in front of the Public Security Police Post old town Bamenda on January 25, 2019, few minutes after taking part in the evening prayers and latter released.
Human rights organisations including Amnesty international have been calling for him to be freed .This international pressure on the oppressive dictatorship in Yaounde may have helped his liberation,but thousands of Southern Cameroonians remain incarcerated across the Country under very difficult conditions including Southern Cameroons leaders illegally abducted in Nigeria and handed to oppressive regime in Yaounde without due process,in violation of international law.
