For calling on his activists to demonstrate peacefully, the MRC president was thrown into the same prison as some formidable Boko Haram activists and the Civil War in the English-speaking regions.
This Friday, February 15, 2019, Maurice Kamto is a year older. For the first time in his life, the internationally renowned professor of international law spent his birthday in prison.
In his capacity as National President of the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon (MRC), opposition political party, he called his activists and sympathizers to demonstrate peacefully on January 26, 2019 throughout the country to denounce electoral fraud and the mismanagement of the country by the regime of Paul Biya in power for 37 years.
The authorities who had deployed the police to put down the demonstrators, have been indicted to the Military Court of Yaounde, the leader of the MRC for acts of hostility against the party, insurrection, insulting the head of state. Some of these charges are punishable by death.
While waiting to be presented to an examining magistrate for the rest of the proceedings, Maurice Kamto was thrown into the main prison of Kondengui, a prison built on the remains of the ex-mixed Brigade Mobile (BMM), sadly old place of torture for political prisoners.
The candidate ranked second at the end of the presidential election of October 07, 2018, does not discover this prison environment. He spent a few days there in 1985 for "daring" to criticize a book by the philosopher Hubert Mono Ndjana devoted to "the social idea at Paul Biya". He returned there on the morning of Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 34 years after his first experience.
This time, the political opponent most feared by the Biya regime coexists with prisoners related to Boko Haram affairs and the Anglophone crisis, like Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the secessionist leader.
Of the 131 demonstrators indicted following the demonstrations of January 26, 2019, seven, mostly MRC executives, are in custody at the former BMM. They are engaged artist Valsero, Penda Ekoko, Eric Kingue, Albert Dzongang, Célestin Djamen, Professor Alain Fogue and President Maurice Kamto.
Source: cameroon-info.net