Cameroon - Journalist to be tried for photographing police breaking up meeting

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Cameroonian authorities to drop all proceedings against François Fogno Fotso, a reporter and publisher of the newspaper Génération Libre, who is to be tried tomorrow in Yaoundé on charges of disobeying the police and “rebellion.” RSF learned on 15 September that Fotso was being held at judicial police headquarters in Yaoundé after being arrested while trying to take photos at an NGO-organized workshop on democracy that was deemed to be illegal and was (...)

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