The Human Rights Defenders Network makes a declaration following recent abductions and enforced disappearances

The Human Rights Defenders Network in Central Africa slams verbal sanctions on the recent mishaps in the Country.

Stating 'Everyone has the right to have his cause to be heard' the Human Rights Defenders Network in Central Africa declares that the prohibition of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium is illegal and unfounded by the rule of law.

Pressing further, REDHAC in the same declaration indicates that such acts are similar to abductions and enforced disappearances.

Concerned about the Dissolution of the CACSC and the arbitrary arrest of Mr. Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla and Dr. Fontem A. Neba, REDHAC strongly condemns the ban on the activities of the CACSC by the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation.

Protesting against the arbitrary arrest and detention of the CACSC defenders, REDHAC called for the immediate and unconditional release of the Consortium leaders. The Human Rights Defenders Network in Central Africa also called on the state to require the Ministries of Communication and Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, to publish without delay the names of the other 25 arrested persons since January 13, 2017 in connection with the crisis, and to immediately lift up the decree prohibiting the activities of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium which is in accordance with the African and UN Human Rights instruments on freedom of association.