Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Cameroonian court refuses to free journalist needing treatment

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NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by today’s Yaoundé Special Criminal Court decision to reject a request for Amadou Vamoulké’s provisional release although two medical reports say this journalist needs treatment abroad and his continuing detention violates Cameroonian law. It was like a preliminary conviction, RSF said.Neither moral nor legal arguments swayed the court, which ruled at today’s hearing, the 25th in Vamoulké’s trial, that the request by his lawyers for his release had “no basis.”

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