Cameroon: Barrister Ewule Lyonga Challenges Cameroon’s Death Penalty Law in PhD Thesis

Renowned human rights lawyer and Vice President of the General Assembly of the Cameroon Bar Association, Barrister Edward Ewule Lyonga, has earned a PhD in Law, after defending a thesis that strongly recommends the abolition of the death penalty in Cameroon, where an estimated 220 inmates are on death row.

The thesis was defended at the University of Buea’s Faculty of Laws and Political Science on May 15 in a three-hour exchange chaired by Professor Sone Patience…