UN calls for release of lawmaker

Fourteen UN human rights experts have called on the Cameroon Government to release detained opposition leader Maurice Kamto and hundreds of his supporters who were arrested following nationwide protests on 22 September. Kamto has been held under house arrest for three weeks now. BBC News reports that he was detained after he called for countrywide protests to force President Paul Biya, who has been in power for 38 years, to resign. The UN group also called for an impartial investigation into alleged human rights violations by the government.