Cameroon’s main opposition leaderMaurice Kamto, who was runner-up in last year’s presidential election, onFriday goes to trial in a military court on insurrection charges that havesparked an international outcry. Kamto and dozens of political allies andsupporters face charges of insurrection, hostility to the motherland andrebellion, crimes which could carry the death penalty. His trial will go ahead despite repeatedprotests from France, the United States and the European Union, who have beencalling for his release from detention for eight months. “There is no justification for MrKamto and his supporters to have been incarcerated for eight months in theseconditions,” their French lawyer Antoine Vey told AFP. Kamto, the head of the oppositionMovement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC), was arrested in late January aftermonths of peaceful opposition protests over the results of the October 2018presidential election. The MRC charges the election was riggedin favour of President Paul Biya, who has been in power for 36 years. Kamtobelieves he won the election.