Deji Olukotun writes:
In 2013, a voice in a polite Francophone accent told me over the phone about a writer named Enoh Meyomesse, who had been detained by authorities in Cameroon. Meyomesse had been accused of some startling crimes, such as smuggling gold for guns, but the caller explained the charges were all fabricated, and that if we didn’t act soon Enoh might die in prison without a trial. Officially, Enoh was “detained” in legal parlance, since no charges had been brought or a trial date set — meaning he could be locked in solitary confinement or packed in a cell with 50 other people in one of Cameroon’s notorious prisons. (It later turned out that both had occurred.)More here