A video purportedly appearing customery Cameroonian singer Simon Longkana Agno, broadly referred to as Longue Longue, being tortured has resulted in prevailing outrage within the nation.

The artist, famend for making hits about sinful governance, colonialism, and alternative social ills, mentioned the video used to be taken upcoming he used to be arrested in 2019, however that is the primary future it’s been revealed via the nation.

Longue Longue shared it himself, however it’s vague why it’s only popping out now or how he got it.

The Cameroonian government are but to remark.

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Within the video, Longue Longue’s fingers are cuffed at the back of his again, and he’s sitting at the flooring in his lingerie because the soles of his naked toes are crushed with a flat machete.

Regardless of his determined pleas for the thrashing to cancel, the boys, alleged via Longue Longue to be safety brokers, proceed.

The BBC has been not able to make sure the video. Now we have attempted to touch the singer with out luck.

On his Fb web page, he mentioned he used to be arrested for his “freedom of thought”, and promised to record prison proceedings in each Cameroon and France.

He used to be arrested in 2019 upcoming posting a video pronouncing that long-time President Paul Biya had rigged the 2018 election.

The artist mentioned opposition chief, Maurice Kamto of the Cameroon Renaissance Motion (CRM), used to be the rightful winner of the polls.

On the future, the Constitutional Council uninvited Kamto’s call for for a re-run as a result of alleged rigging.

The opposition chief is amongst the ones to have denounced the plain torture and referred to as for an investigation into the incident.

“The CRM strongly condemns this state barbarity and demands the urgent opening of an enquiry to arrest and immediately bring before the courts the perpetrators of these inhuman acts,” Kamto mentioned in a commentary on X.

He added that the video used to be “reminiscent of the horrific treatment” opposition activists confronted throughout the crackdown in 2019 when masses of his supporters have been detained.

Famend Cameroonian human rights legal professional Akere Muna mentioned Longue Longue’s remedy used to be a “stark reminder of the depths of depravity to which humanity can descend”.

Rights teams have criticised the federal government for developing an “atmosphere of impunity” for contributors of the rustic’s safety forces.

They have got additionally accused the government of cracking ill on dissent forward of upcoming life’s presidential election.