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Take action: Help free imprisoned songwriter
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR630.htm
Publisher: International Freedom of Expression Exchange
Date Written: 30/10/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Freemuse, a free expression organisation for musicians and composers, is asking for your support to help dissident singer/songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga. He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President
Abstract: Freemuse, a free expression organisation for musicians and composers, is asking for your support to help dissident singer/songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga. He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President Paul Biya.
Freemuse and the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN have been campaigning for his release since he was jailed in April 2008. That month, Cameroon changed the constitution and eliminated term limits for the Presiden...
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