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Home > Cameroon: IGLHRC mourns loss of Alim Mongoche, one of Yaoundé 11
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Monday, July 3, 2006 - 03:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
262 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) confirms with great sorrow the death of Alim Mongoche from AIDS-related complications. Alim was 30 years old and worked as a clothing designer. Alim was one of the 11 Cameroonian men who spent more than a year in prison awaiting trial under Article 347 of the Cameroonian penal code, which punishes sex between men.

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Human Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/rights/35569 [5]
Country: 
Cameroon [6]
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