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In Burundi, international and local human rights organizations condemned the arrest and imprisonment, described as arbitrary, by a former opposition representative, Fabien Banciryanino, on 2 October. He was arrested without a warrant and then jailed in the Mpimba jail in Bujumbura a week ago, officially for "riots, slanderous condemnations and attacks on the state's internal and external security". However, according to one of his lawyers and a letter sent by the interested party to CNIDH, the independent national…

For a week, police have been deployed around the residence of the leader of the MRC. His party called for a protest against the Paul Biya regime in Cameroon last Tuesday. Demonstrations that mobilized an impressive security system despite the low turnout. Dozens of police and gendarme filters around the residence of Maurice Kamto day and night. In order to enter, a request must be made to the authorities. And until now Maurice Kamto claims not to have received any official notification from justice to explain the…