Cameroon - Jail sentences for three journalists on eve of media conference

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by this week's court decision to sentence fugitive journalist Simon Hervé Nko'o in absentia to 15 years in prison and to pass suspended two-year jail sentences on two other journalists, Serge Sabouang and Robert Mintya. The sentences were issued just two days before a government-organized, three-day General Conference on Communication (EGC), which begins today in Yaoundé's Congress Centre “The General Conference on Communication could not have begun in a (...)

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