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Articles - Cameroon

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Cameroon

Media repression reported by IFEX members ahead of elections

In the week leading up to Cameroon's national elections, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) conducted a press freedom mission that concluded both the country's media laws and democratic participation require a major overhaul. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), meanwhile, reports on the detention and assault of journalists just one day before the elections.

Cameroon

Editors released conditionally on orders of President

Cameroonian journalists Robert Mintya and Serge Sabouang were released conditionally on 24 November on the order of President Paul Biya, report Journaliste en danger (JED), Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). They had been in prison since March 2010.

Cameroon

Pius Njawé, torchbearer for press freedom, dies in car accident

Shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic death of Cameroonian journalist Pius Njawé in a car accident in the US this week, IFEX members worldwide have responded with heartfelt tributes to his life's work as a courageous defender of press freedom.

Cameroon

Journalist dies in detention

Two Cameroonian journalists watched a colleague die in prison on 22 April. All three journalists were incarcerated in March for investigating corruption involving a top presidential aide and a state-run oil company, report Journaliste en Danger (JED), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

Cameroon

UN AUTRE JOURNALISTE DERRIÈRE LES BARREAUX POUR DIFFAMATION PÉNALE

Cameroon

CAMERÚN OTRO PERIODISTA TRAS LAS REJAS DEBIDO A LEYES PENALES DE DIFAMACIÓN

Cameroon

ANOTHER JOURNALIST BEHIND BARS FOR CRIMINAL DEFAMATION

A newspaper editor in Cameroon has been given jail time for "spreading false news" about President Paul Biya, report Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and other IFEX members. He's the fourth newspaper editor jailed in Cameroon for his work since September 2007, making the country the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa, says CPJ.

Cameroon

CAMEROUN : UN CHANTEUR DISSIDENT EST CONDAMNÉ À TROIS ANS DE PRISON

Cameroon

CAMERÚN: CORRESPONSAL DISIDENTE SENTENCIADO A TRES AÑOS DE CÁRCEL

Cameroon

CAMEROON: DISSIDENT SINGER SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN JAIL

This April, Cameroon adopted an amendment to its constitution that eliminated term limits for the President, as well as granted him immunity for any acts committed while in office. No one was smiling more prettily than President Paul Biya, who at 75 has been in office for 26 years and is seeking re-election in 2011.

Cameroon

MUSICIANS AT RISK FOR SPEAKING OUT

Musicians are the latest target in Cameroon's quest to silence critics of the recent constitutional amendments that eliminate term limits for the President, report the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and the Network of African Freedom of Expression Organizations (NAFEO). Elsewhere in Africa, Ethiopian police have detained an editor and seized a magazine over the cover story of a pop icon, say the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association (EFJA) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Cameroon

GOBIERNO OBLIGA A TRES DIFUSORAS A SALIR DEL AIRE

Cameroon

LE GOUVERNEMENT FORCE TROIS RADIODIFFUSEURS À QUITTER LES ONDES

Cameroon

GOVERNMENT FORCES THREE BROADCASTERS OFF AIR

A third broadcaster has been forced off the air in Cameroon for covering violent demonstrations against a rise in prices and a government proposal to eliminate term limits for the President, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Cameroon

LEVANTAN PROHIBICIÓN CONTRA RADIO PRIVADA

Cameroon

LEVÉE DE LA SUSPENSION D’UNE STATION DE RADIO PRIVÉE

Cameroon

BAN ON PRIVATE RADIO LIFTED

Cameroon's Communications Minister Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo has lifted a ban that the government imposed on Freedom FM, a private radio station founded by independent journalist Pius Njawé in 2003, reports Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontiéres, RSF).

Cameroon

Camerún: 100,000 apoyan estación de radio proscrita

Cameroon

Cameroon: 100,000 Support Banned Radio Station

29 March 2005

Cameroon

AGISSEZ ! Cameroun: Signez une pétition d'appui à une station de radio

Cameroon

GOBIERNO INDEMNIZA A PERIODISTA OBJETO DE ABUSO

Cameroon

LE GOUVERNEMENT ACCORDE UN DÉDOMMAGEMENT À UN JOURNALISTE VIOLENTÉ

Cameroon

GOVERNMENT COMPENSATES ABUSED JOURNALIST

Albert Mukong, a Cameroonian journalist and human rights activist who took his case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, has received US$137,000 from the Cameroon government in compensation for the abuses he suffered, reports ARTICLE 19. In 1994, the Human Rights Committee found that his rights to liberty and security of person and freedom of expression had been violated and recommended compensation. ARTICLE 19, which acted as Mukong's counsel, congratulates the the government for compensating the journalist and for "reaffirming "the principle that governments are responsible for past human rights violations committed by the state."