Committee to Protect Journalists: Cameroonian Journalist Martinez Zogo Jailed Since January on Defamation Charges
February 19, 2020
February 19, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
Authorities in Cameroon should immediately release journalist Martinez Zogo, drop all charges against him, and reform the country's penal code to decriminalize defamation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On January 17, judicial police officers in Yaounde, the capital, arrested Zogo at the offices of Radio Amplitude FM, a privately owned broadcaster where he works as editor-in . . .
Authorities in Cameroon should immediately release journalist Martinez Zogo, drop all charges against him, and reform the country's penal code to decriminalize defamation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On January 17, judicial police officers in Yaounde, the capital, arrested Zogo at the offices of Radio Amplitude FM, a privately owned broadcaster where he works as editor-in . . .