Martinez Zogo’s kidnapping is the latest in a string of attacks against journalists in the African country
Martinez Zogo had spoken on-air recently about a case of alleged embezzlement involving a media outlet with government connections, RSF said.Martinez Zogo had spoken on-air recently about a case of alleged embezzlement involving a media outlet with government connections, RSF said.The mutilated body of a prominent Cameroonian journalist has been found near the capital, Yaoundé, five days after he was abducted by unidentified assailants.
Zogo, the director of the private radio station Amplitude FM, was kidnapped on 17 January by unknown assailants after trying to enter a police station to escape his attackers, the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said. “Cameroonian media has just lost one of its members, a victim of hatred and barbarism,” Cameroon’s journalists’ trade union said in a statement. “Where is the freedom of the press, freedom of opinion and freedom of expression in Cameroon when working in the media now entails a mortal risk?”
The incident is the latest in a string of attacks against journalists in Cameroon, which is ruled by President Paul Biya, who has a decades-long record of repressing opposition.
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