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Censored
August 8
Gaston Ekawalla, La Détente, LEGAL ACTION
La Détente, CENSORED
Ekawalla, a journalist with the newspaper La Détente, was sentenced to five months in prison and fined 1,000 CFA (US$200) for defaming a member of Parliament, Albert Dzongang. The newspaper was suspended from publishing for six months. The verdict was in connection with an article in the Aug. 18, 1993, edition of La Détente, which said that Dzongang had been involved in an illegal network that was issuing false diplomatic passports. At year's end, Ekawalla had not started serving his sentence.
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