**For background on “Le Messager” see IFEX CH alerts dated 18 May, 20 April and 10 January 1995** On 16 August 1995, Pius Njawe, editor in chief of “Le Messager”, and a journalist with the weekly were given deferred sentences of two months in prison and fined 300,000 francs CFA in damages for “abuse and […]
**For background on “Le Messager” see IFEX CH alerts
dated 18 May, 20 April and 10 January 1995**
On 16 August 1995, Pius Njawe, editor in chief of “Le Messager”,
and a journalist with the weekly were given deferred sentences of
two months in prison and fined 300,000 francs CFA in damages for
“abuse and slander” of Jean Fochive, the chief of police in
Cameroon. “Le Messager” was also fined six million francs CFA for
“moral wrongs” suffered by Jean Fochive. On 5 June, “Le Messager”
published an article accusing those in charge of the Cameroonian
police of diverting millions of francs CFA.
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His Excellency Paul Biya
President of the Republic of Cameroon
Palais de l’Unite
Yaounde, Cameroon
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