22 July 2005

Alert

Newspaper editor released after being held for two weeks


Incident details

Joseph Bessala Ahanda

editor(s)

released

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(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has welcomed the release of "Le Front" editor-in-chief Joseph Bessala Ahanda on 21 July 2005, two days after a delegation of journalists met the director of criminal affairs at the Justice Ministry.

"The end of this arbitrary imprisonment is good news for Cameroon's journalists," the organisation said.

Ahanda was arrested on 6 July and held pending trial in connection with three reports he published about the alleged embezzlement of 300 million CFA francs (approx. US$546,000; 457,000 euros) by Maurice Bayémi, the head of the Cameroon postal services, Campost, and his associate, Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga, the owner of the Anecdote press group.

Ahanda is still due to stand trial. No date has yet been set for a hearing.



Source:

Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
 

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