Spotlight: Attacks
Cameroon
Cameroonian journalist Paul Chouta attacked outside his home
Authorities are urged to ensure that those who beat and stabbed reporter Paul Chouta are swiftly brought to justice.
Spotlight: Attacks
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Cameroon
Free Expression & the Law
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Cameroonian journalists arrested for covering opposition gathering
Two journalists from privately owned Cameroonian daily newspaper Le Jour were arrested while covering a gathering of opposition party members in the city of Douala.
Cameroon
Free Expression & the Law
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Cameroon's leading journalist held on trumped up charges since 2016
RSF is reiterating its call for the immediate release of leading Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké, in prison on trumped-up charges since July 2016. He is due to appear in court on 4 December in a trial already postponed 14 times in a row.
Cameroon
Free Expression & the Law
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Outspoken critic and journalist detained but not yet charged by Cameroonian authorities
Michel Biem Tong, editor of the privately owned Hurinews website, was summoned to the State Secretariat for Defense in the capital, Yaoundé and detained without being charged.
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