A court in Cameroon has sentenced seven activists from the country’s Anglophone minority, including their leader, to up to 15 years in prison for rebellion and acts of “terrorism”.
Mancho Bibixy, a radio presenter in the English-speaking Northwest Region, and dozens of fellow activists were arrested in January 2017 as part of a crackdown on a budding Anglophone secessionist movement.
The movement accuses President Paul Biya’s predominantly Francophone government of marginalising Cameroon’s English-speaking minority.
One activist was acquitted, Bibixy’s lawyer, Claude Assira, told the Reuter news agency, but he said the convictions “would only worsen the … Anglophone crisis”.