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3 LGBT prisoners have been released; 5 others await further donations.
Readers’ donations to Project Not Alone have set free three innocent LGBT prisoners who were arrested and convicted on the basis of African homophobia.
More donations are needed to continue the work and set free five other gay prisoners.
To encourage those donations, a generous supporter of Project Not Alone has offered to match donors’ gifts up to a total of $1,000. Please consider taking her up on that offer and doubling the impact of your gift.
Early donations have allowed us to pay the fines of Addie, Diane and Sonia, who have been in prison since November. when Cameroon police lured them into a trap, using an online dating site. The specifics of their release from Kndengui prison, which came earlier this month, will be reported in an upcoming article, including their plans for the future.
Work is under way on behalf of these LGBT prisoners:
- Cam, a gay man serving a two-year sentence for homosexuality in Kondengui prison after his partner’s parents reported him to police in December 2025. Because Cam has fallen ill, donations to Project Not Alone have been used to pay his medical expenses. Legal work on his behalf will begin when we have donations to cover legal expenses.
- Chidi, a gay man who was imprisoned last November in Port Harcourt Maximum Security Prison, Nigeria, after being blackmailed by a sexual partner. An attorney is working for Chidi without pay. Donated money is being used to pay for unavoidable legal expenses such as copying and filing fees.
Work will begin on behalf of these LGBT prisoners once we have money to pay legal expenses
- Serge, Tristan and Edgar are in Kondengui prison while they await a long-delayed trial on homosexuality charges. They were arrested in January after homophobic neighbors reported them to police. We have an attorney who will work without pay on their behalf once we have funds to cover legal expenses.
This is Wikipedia’s account of the Kondengui Prison:
Kondengui Central Prison is a maximum security prison in Yaoundé, Cameroon. It has been the subject of numerous international criticisms for its overcrowding and poor conditions
Kondengui was constructed in 1967 and was originally built to house 1,500 inmates.[1] The facility has 16 toilets and 400 beds.[1]
In 2002, prisoners were fed one meal a day and given 4.4 ounces of soap every six months.[1] In 2003, the US Department of State issued a “scathing” report on Cameroonian prisons in which it noted that Kondengui was severely overcrowded, housing a population of 9,530 in space meant for 2,000.[2] In 2011, Amnesty International described the prison conditions to be “harsh, with inmates suffering overcrowding, poor sanitation and inadequate food. Prison guards are poorly trained, ill-equipped and their numbers inadequate for a big prison population.”
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