‘For me,” says Charles Atangana over the phone from the Immigration Detention Centre at Colnbrook near Heathrow, where he is being held, “going back to Cameroon is a death sentence.”
Six years ago he fled the west African country, seeking asylum in Glasgow. Back in Cameroon, he’d been one of the country’s best investigative journalists and had been detained without trial and tortured for publishing articles critical of the government.
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