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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/2627(RSP))

On Prosecution of journalists in Cameroon, notably the cases of Amadou Vamoulké, Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka, Mancho Bibixy, Thomas Awah Junior and Tsi Conrad

B-10-2025-0230

on behalf of The Left Group · Rapporteur: Rima Hassan

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The resolution condemns the prosecution and arbitrary detention of journalists in Cameroon, citing specific cases, and calls for their release and fair trials. It urges Cameroon to reform its anti-terrorism law, ratify international treaties, and end the use of military courts for civilians. It also calls on member states to support a UN fact-finding mission and questions the classification of the conflict in the NW/SW regions.

Key points

  1. Calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all arbitrarily detained individuals, including journalists, opposition members, and activists.
  2. Urges Cameroon to ensure fair trials in line with international standards for those detained.
  3. Reiterates serious concerns over arbitrary arrest and harassment of journalists.
  4. Recalls that military tribunals cannot try civilians under international law.
  5. Calls on Cameroonian authorities to guarantee freedom of expression, association, and assembly.
  6. Strongly recommends comprehensive reform of the deeply flawed anti-terrorism law.
  7. Calls on Cameroon to ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.
  8. Reiterates call to member states to support a UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission to Cameroon.
  9. Stresses that the culture of impunity fuels corruption, undermines human rights, and encourages violence.
  10. Reaffirms opposition to the death penalty and calls on Cameroon to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR.
  11. Calls on the international community to question the classification of the conflict in the NW/SW regions as a non-international armed conflict.

Who is affected

  • Journalists and other arbitrarily detained individuals in Cameroon, who would be released and granted fair trials.
  • Cameroonian authorities, who are urged to reform laws and guarantee rights.
  • Member states, called on to support a UN fact-finding mission.