At least 795 members of Boko Haram are in prison in Cameroon, and 125 of them have already been found guilty of terrorism.
Local newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, which is Cameroon’s most reliable newspaper on Boko Haram insurgency said the 795 Boko Haram members in detention represent half of the total population in jail in Maroua, the capital of the country’s far north region, which shares a long border with Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau men are based.
However, Amnesty International had warned last year, that a lot of innocent people were just being picked up by the army in the guise of fighting Boko Haram. Most of those people have no access to lawyers.
The government has often rejected claims by the human rights body which often selects media houses it sends press statements to.
TheSimonAtebaNews had in recent times tried to establish contact with the human rights organisation but several requests were greeted with cold silence, a crass violation of free access to information the organisation often claims to fight for.