Abs.:

Director of Kondengi prison
Monsieur le Directeur
Prison Centrale de  Kondengui,
BP 100, Yaoundé- Province Centrale

Cameroon

								........., the        2006

Mr Director,

we are very concerned about

eight men and a 17-years-old teenager

who are detained and being judged in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde and imprisonned in your jail by reason of same-sex act.
We warn that the nonviolent detainees are imprisoned not because of political reasons but because of their alleged sexual orientation, as

                       amnesty international

sees it.

We challenge the authorities:

to order immediately dismissal of proceedings against the nine detainees as they are accused of  their real or alleged sexual orientation,

to free the nine persons promptly and unconditionally and to respect their right of union freedom as it is constituted in the International Ratified Human Rights Convention of Cameroon, in the International Pact for Civil and Political Rights and in the African Charter for Human and Nation Rights,

to make sure that the medical inspection will be omitted which should find if the accuseds practiced anal intercourse as well as to abstain from brutal, inhumane and humiliating treatment.

We demand that the detainees are allowed to contact their families and lawyers and to receive any possibly needed medical care.

Yours faithfully

Abs.:

Kanzlei der Botschaft 
der Republik Kamerun
S. E. Herrn Jean Melaga
Rheinallee 76
53173 Bonn
(via Telefax: 0228-359 058)

KOPIE ZUR KENNTNISNAHME

Director of Kondengi prison
Monsieur le Directeur
Prison Centrale de  Kondengui,
BP 100, Yaoundé- Province Centrale

Cameroon

								........., the        2006

Mr Director,

we are very concerned about

eight men and a 17-years-old teenager

who are detained and being judged in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde and imprisonned in your jail by reason of same-sex act.
We warn that the nonviolent detainees are imprisoned not because of political reasons but because of their alleged sexual orientation, as

                       amnesty international

sees it.

We challenge the authorities:

to order immediately dismissal of proceedings against the nine detainees as they are accused of  their real or alleged sexual orientation,

to free the nine persons promptly and unconditionally and to respect their right of union freedom as it is constituted in the International Ratified Human Rights Convention of Cameroon, in the International Pact for Civil and Political Rights and in the African Charter for Human and Nation Rights,

to make sure that the medical inspection will be omitted which should find if the accuseds practiced anal intercourse as well as to abstain from brutal, inhumane and humiliating treatment.

We demand that the detainees are allowed to contact their families and lawyers and to receive any possibly needed medical care.

Yours faithfully