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Imprisoned
November 27
Evarisite Menouga, Le Nouvel Indépendant, IMPRISONED
Menouga, a reporter for Le Nouvel Indépendant, was detained for questioning at Yaounde police headquarters and later remanded into custody at the Yaounde gendarmerie. Authorities prohibited Menouga from meeting with his attorney and denied him visits from his family until Dec. 5. Menouga's interrogators pressured him to reveal his sources for various articles.
December 4
Peter William Mandio, Le Nouvel Indépendant, Le Front Indépendant, IMPRISONED
Military authorities arrested Mandio in connection with his Oct. 3 article in the weekly Le Nouvel Indépendant, which was critical of Minister of Public Works Jean Baptiste Bokam. Authorities placed Mandio in isolation at the Yaoude gendarmerie before transferring him Dec. 9 to a military center. Security forces questioned Mandio about information he had published in the weekly Le Front Indépendant, a newspaper Mandio founded on Oct. 8 during a temporary shutdown of Le Nouvel Indépendant. Mandio was released on Dec. 16.
December 10
Daniel Atangana, Le Front Indépendant, IMPRISONED
Police arrested Atangana, a journalist for the weekly Le Front Indépendant, in Douala. They took him to the gendarmerie in Yaounde and then to a detention center. The arrest was in connection with a Dec. 2 article in the newspaper that was critical of presidential guard commander Titus Ebogo.
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