Posts Tagged ‘Cameroon’
September 12th, 2011
The editor of the
Cameroon-based Génération Libre, François Fogno Fotso,
has been detained since 5 September, and is being pressed to reveal sources for a story written about the alleged corruption of a tax official. Fotso was pushed to reveal the whereabouts of Boris Nembop, who wrote the August 2010 story, which accused public tax collector Célestin Tabouli of transferring government funds to his personal accounts, based on documents given to the paper. Fotso has not complied to the demands of military police, and has been summoned at least four times since October 2010 on the account of the article.
December 23rd, 2009
Cameroonian journalist Innocent Ebodé was abducted from his home in the Chadian capital N’Djamena on 21 December. A military source said that he is safe in Kousséri, across the border in Cameroon, but Ebodé’s family and lawyer have not heard from him. The abduction, said to be by two men in civilian clothing, follows the journalist’s deportation in mid-October and the closure of the independent N’Djamena-based newspaper he edits, La Voix, in November. His lawyer expressed concern that the abduction was linked to the journalist’s intention to attend a court hearing regarding the seizure of La Voix on 3 December.
Read Reporters Sans Frontières open letter to Chad’s minister of the interior
here
May 20th, 2009
Journaliste en Danger is an organisation dedicated to the defence and promotion of press freedom, initially in the DRC and since May 2003 also in Burundi, Cameroon, Coorganisation Brazzaville, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Rwanda and Thad.
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April 11th, 2008
A vocal critic of a constitutional reform that will allow President Paul Biya to stand for another term in 2011 was arrested on Wednesday.
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February 25th, 2008
Journalists at Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) have been warned by management not to cover criticism of constitutional change.
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