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   (Nairobi) – Cameroonian security forces have arbitrarily   
   arrested, beaten, or threatened at least 24 people, including a   
   17-year-old boy, for alleged consensual same-sex conduct or   
   gender nonconformity, since February 2021, Human Rights Watch   
   said today. At least one of them was forced to undergo an HIV   
   test and anal examination.   
      
   Based on Human Rights Watch’s monitoring and discussions with   
   Cameroonian nongovernmental organizations, the recent accounts   
   of abuse documented here seem to be part of an overall uptick in   
   police action against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender   
   (LGBT) people in Cameroon. Sexual relations between people of   
   the same sex are criminalized in Cameroon and punished with up   
   to five years in prison.   
      
   “These recent arrests and abuses raise serious concerns about a   
   new upsurge in anti-LGBT persecution in Cameroon,” said Neela   
   Ghoshal, associate LGBT rights director at Human Rights Watch.   
   “The law criminalizing same-sex conduct puts LGBT people at a   
   heightened risk of being mistreated, tortured, and assaulted   
   without any consequences for the abusers.”   
      
   Between February 17 and April 8, Human Rights Watch interviewed   
   by telephone 18 people, including 5 who had been detained, 3   
   lawyers, and 10 members of Cameroonian LGBT nongovernmental   
   organizations. Human Rights Watch also reviewed reports by   
   Cameroonian and international LGBT organizations, court   
   documents, police reports, and medical records.   
      
   Human Rights Watch shared its findings with the justice   
   minister, Laurent Esso; the state secretary at the Defense   
   Ministry in charge of the national gendarmerie, Yves Landry   
   Etoga; and the delegate general for national security, Martin   
   Mbarga Nguele, in a March 25 letter, requesting answers to   
   specific questions. Cameroonian officials have yet to respond.   
      
   On February 24, police officers raided the office of Colibri, an   
   organization that provides HIV prevention and treatment   
   services, in Bafoussam, West Region, and arrested 13 people on   
   homosexuality charges, including 7 Colibri staff. The police   
   released all 13 people on February 26 and 27. Three of those   
   arrested said that police beat at least three Colibri staff   
   members at the police station and that the police threatened and   
   verbally assaulted all those arrested. They also said that the   
   police interrogated them without the presence of a lawyer and   
   forced them to sign statements they were not allowed to read.   
      
   One of them, a 22-year-old transgender woman, said: “Police told   
   us we are devils, not humans, not normal. They beat a trans   
   woman in the face, slapped her twice in front of me.”   
      
   Police also forced one of the 13 arrested, a 26-year-old   
   transgender woman, to undergo an HIV test and anal examination   
   at a health center in Bafoussam on February 25. She told Human   
   Rights Watch: “The doctor was embarrassed but said he had to do   
   the examination because the prosecutor needed it. He carried out   
   the examination. I had to bend over. The doctor wore gloves and   
   put in his finger. It was the most humiliating thing I’ve ever   
   experienced.”   
      
   What this transgender woman experienced is not an isolated case.   
   Human Rights Watch has previously documented that prosecutors in   
   Cameroon have introduced medical reports based on forced anal   
   exams into court, contributing to convictions of individuals   
   charged with consensual homosexual conduct.   
      
   Human Rights Watch documented two additional arrests in 2021 and   
   one mass arrest in 2020. In Bertoua, on February 14, gendarmes   
   arrested 12 youth, including at least 1 teenager, on   
   homosexuality charges and subjected them to ill-treatment before   
   releasing them the same day. On February 8, gendarmes   
   arbitrarily arrested two transgender women in Douala, targeting   
   them in the street on the basis of their gender expression.   
      
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