Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Beaten in Cameroon

By Human Rights Watch

On November 27, gendarmes in Cameroon arrested and severely beat prominent human rights lawyer Richard Tamfu in the country’s largest city, Douala. The vicious assault fits a pattern of official attacks on lawyers, presumably designed to deter them from doing their job. Click to expand Image Leading Human Rights Lawyer Richard Tamfu at the hospital following beatings by gendarmes in Douala, Cameroon, November 2024. © 2024 Private On the day in question, three gendarmes came to arrest a client of Tamfu’s in the Bonaberi neighborhood. Tamfu told Human Rights Watch he was there to…

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