Majority Cameroon prisoners still awaiting trial

About 80 per cent of inmates in Cameroon’s overcrowded prisons are pre-trial detainees due to excessively long trial waits, a study has revealed. The study by the Cameroon branch of Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) revealed a 20 per cent increase in remand prisoners from a 60.7 per cent estimate by the International Centre for Prison [...]