(YAOUNDE, Cameroon) – Ten days after completing a one-year prison sentence for homosexuality during which he was raped and abused, Alim died from an AIDS-related illness at the Central Hospital in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. Homosexuality is a crime under Cameroonian law, punishable by up to five years in prison. Alim was one of 30 people arrested at a bar in Yaoundé in May 2005. Most of the men were released, but Alim was one of nine transferred to Yaoundé Central Prison.
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