{"id":432570,"date":"2017-10-31T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/cameroon-opposition-leader-jailed-for-25-years\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T11:41:58","slug":"cameroon-opposition-leader-jailed-for-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/cameroon-opposition-leader-jailed-for-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon opposition leader jailed for 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".xfw31o8jcw.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.0.$k59f838a2e4b09899d341ebbe.3.0.0\">\n<p>Leading rights group Amnesty International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison for hostility against the homeland, trying to instigate a revolution and contempt of the president.<\/p>\n<p>Aboubakar Siddiki \u2013 the leader of an opposition party in the north \u2013 was the \u201clatest victim of the Cameroonian authorities\u2019 strangling of opposition voices\u201d, Amnesty said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>No credible evidence was presented to the court to convict him, it added.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in 2014 after being accused of plotting to destabilise President Paul Biya\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Biya has been in power since 1982, and his critics accuse him of being authoritarian.<\/p>\n<p>Several people have been killed and hundreds arrested in a crackdown on protests in English-speaking regions where people are complaining of marginalisation in mainly French-speaking Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The military has also been battling fighters from militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the far north, who cross the border from Nigeria to carry out attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading rights group Amnesty International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison for hostility against the homeland, trying to instigate a revolution and contempt of the president. 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