U.S. Deportees and Journalists Face Tensions in Cameroon

Feb 17: AP reporter and three others, including lawyer Joseph Awah Fru, beaten and detained in Yaounde.
Compound is a detention center for 17 U.S. deported migrants.
Journalists interrogated, phones, cameras, laptops confiscated.
All five released, but Cameroon and U.S. officials didn't respond.
Federal court challenges U.S. deportation policies; migrants face pressure to return.
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