Thousands have been detained and tortured in the Yaound jail as Paul Biya, 92, seeks to keep his grip on power In the visitors area in the courtyard of Kondengui maximum security prison, French-dubbed Nollywood films play on a TV as inmates and their guests hug each other and laugh. The green, red and yellow flag of Cameroon flutters above. The happy picture in this corner of Cameroons capital, Yaound, belies the prisons dark status as ground zero of Paul Biyas five-decade crackdown on dissent in the central African country. Thousands of people have been detained and tortured here as Biya, who turned 92 this year, seeks to keep Cameroon under his grip.
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