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Cameroonian Journalist Arrested In Buea as Biya's regime Continues to Harass Reporters. Prince Nfor Hanson Nchanji a journalist working with Equinox TV Douala, and a reporter for Cameroon Concord was detained today Sunday,28.August 2016 at a Police station in Muea-Buea,South West region of Cameroon.

Hanson was detained this Sunday for interviewing Derick Jato who had been under custody since Wednesday at thesame police station. Derick Jato, South West Correspondent for Equinoxe Television was detained last Wednesday under unclear circumstances.

Journalists in Cameroon are often subjected to arrests designed to intimidate. 

Journalists in Cameroon are often subjected to arrests designed to intimidate. Ahmed Abba, Radio France Internationale's Hausa-language correspondent in northern Cameroon, is being held incommunicado in Yaoundé since August in a manner qualified as “extra-judicial” by RFI.Abba was later charged with terrorist collusion and failing to report terrorist acts to the authorities,

François Fogno Fotso, the editor of the weekly Génération Libre, has been facing charges of disobeying the police and “rebellion” ever since he photographed the heavy-handed arrests of pro-democracy activists in September. His trial has so far been postponed three times.

Cameroon is ranked 133rd out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.

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