Cameroonian asylum-seekers mistreated
February 15, 2022
More than 80 Cameroonian asylum-seekers were deported between 2019 and 2021 and then fell victim to serious human rights violations on their return home. Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New-York based rights group, released a 149-page report documenting dozens of cases of alleged abuse and mistreatment by officers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against those deported. The rights group claims the U.S. was in violation of the principle of nonrefoulment, which states that no one should be returned to a country where they will face torture, cruel and inhuman treatment. HRW said that Cameroonian authorities had abused returnees for having left the country and for seeking asylum in the U.S.
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