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Cameroonian authorities confuse journalism with spying
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Publisher:  Reporters Without Borders
Date Written:  17/09/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

Two journalists - freelance investigative reporter Simon Ateba and Radio France Internationale correspondent Ahmed Abba - are being held illegally by the Cameroonian authorities, who claim that their journalistic work constituted spying.

Abstract:  Two journalists - freelance investigative reporter Simon Ateba and Radio France Internationale correspondent Ahmed Abba - are being held illegally by the Cameroonian authorities, who claim that their journalistic work constituted spying.

Ateba has been in a jail in the northern city of Mokolo for the past six days after being arrested as he was leaving the Minawao camp for Nigerian refugees, where he had been investigating conditions in the camp.

The authorities insist he was spying althou...
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