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Cameroon

Barometer

With a moratorium on executions
Country status
105
Sentenced
0
Execution(s)
0
Conviction(s)
Figures for 2025. The last execution in Cameroon took place in 1997.

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Rights and Peace (Droits et Paix)
Cameroon

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Conditions of detention, Fact-finding mission, Overview of the death penalty
Lives on hold: the situation of people sentenced to death in Cameroon
May 2026
Abolition process
Overview 2025 – The process of abolishing the death penalty in member states of the OIC
Jan 2026
Human Rights Protection Mechanisms
Summary – alternative report on the death penalty in view of Cameroon’s 2023 UPR
Apr 2023
Human Rights Protection Mechanisms
Alternative report on the death penalty for the 4th cycle of Cameroon’s UPR (44th session of the Working Group)
Apr 2023
Couverture de la mission d'enquête "Condamnés à l'oubli: Dans les couloirs de la mort: Cameroun"
Conditions of detention, Overview of the death penalty
Sentenced to oblivion: fact-finding mission on death row, Cameroon
Oct 2022
Couverture "30e session du groupe de travail sur l'EPU PdM 2018"
Human Rights Protection Mechanisms
Cameroon, 30th session of the Working Group on the UPR Death Penalty, April–May 2018 (French)
Oct 2022

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Africa and the death penalty
Infographics – The death penalty in Cameroon (2025)
Table – Voting trends on the UN resolution calling for a universal moratorium
Leaflet – UN resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty
Infographics – the death penalty in Cameroon (2024)
Monitoring conditions of detention of prisoners sentenced to death: pratical guide for NHRIs and NPMs
Video – The death penalty in Cameroon (2023)
Droits et Paix and ECPM are calling on the Cameroonian government to seriously consider the situation regarding the death penalty in the country. At the beginning of 2023, nearly 135 people sentenced to death were being held in Cameroonian prisons.
Infographics – the death penalty in Cameroon (2022)
The death penalty in law and in practice in Cameroon

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Publication
Lives on hold: the situation of people sentenced to death in Cameroon
26 May 2026
In 2016, Cameroon was the French-speaking African country that handed down the highest number of death sentences. Although the death penalty has not been carried out in the country since 1997, nearly 300 death sentences were handed down in 2015 and 2016. Together Against the Death Penalty, Droit et Paix…
Culture
Meet the winners of the 6th edition of the “Draw me abolition” competition!
16 June 2023
This year, around 500 young people from 10 different countries brought together their artistic talents and militant commitment to draw up the abolitionist posters of the future. From Austria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Germany, Indonesia, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda, our young artists demonstrated exceptional creativity! Among…
Testimony
Cameroonian lawyer Nestor Toko Monkam secures the liberation of death row prisoner Fati
21 February 2023
Me. Nestor Toko Monkam, a lawyer in Cameroon and coordinator of our partner Droits et Paix (Rights and Peace), secured last week the acquittal of Fati, Cameroonian woman born in 1971 in Mokolo in the far north region of Cameroon. She his a housewife, mother of two children, now aged…
Advocacy, Event, In the field
Meet the laureates of the 8th World Congress against the death penalty
23 November 2022
The 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty was also an opportunity to highlight civil society actors working towards universal abolition. ECPM, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and their partners highlighted the exceptional work of organizations particularly invested in the different spheres of the abolitionist struggle such as:…
Testimony
Mr Nestor Toko, laureate of the Legal Representation award: “Our commitment to fighting the death penalty knows no bounds”
18 November 2022
Nestor Toko Monkam is a lawyer at the Cameroon Bar and President of RACOPEM, which won the Legal Representation Award at the closing ceremony of the Congress. He is also the founder of Droits et paix, which works to create a society that respects human rights and is fairer and…
Competition poster
Culture
” Draw me abolition “: you are the jury !
06 April 2021
It is time to decide on the winners of the 5th edition of “Draw me abolition”! Out of around 400 posters produced by young people aged between 14 and 20 from 13 different countries, 50 posters have been shortlisted. ECPM and the International Network for Abolition Education are pleased to…
logos picture
Editorial / opinion page, In the field
Launch of a small grants programme in DRC and Cameroon
19 January 2021
ECPM, along with its partners CPJ and Droits et Paix, is launching its small grants programme for 2021 in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon. Two projects by country, running 3 to 12 months from May 2021 and based outside the capitals, will be selected. The application deadline is 28 February 2021. General…
In pictures, In the field
The 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty is already over, but the fight for abolition continues
14 October 2019
At the dawn of the 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty, ECPM takes you around the world to campaign together for universal abolition. Under the map, find more details about the events we have supported! Follow the news of the abolition with the hashtag #AbolitionNow! Find out more about…
edito flyer
Editorial / opinion page
EDITO – Death Row Investigations: ECPM Expertise
27 June 2019
ECPM’s expertise in death row investigations has been in place for many years around the world. Our investigation in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2005 had already received the French Republic Human Rights Prize. The one in Rwanda, carried out in 2007, was cited by the Kagame government as…
press release cover Cameroon
Editorial / opinion page, Publication
In Yaoundé, launch of the first fact-finding mission on death row in Cameroon [press release]
26 June 2019
The report “Sentenced to oblivion. Fact-finding mission on death row in Cameroon”, which was officially launched on the 21st of June at the Delegation of the European Union from Yaoundé in Cameroon, is the result of an unprecedented fact-finding mission, conducted from May to October 2018 in five Cameroonian prisons…
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