(JED/IFEX) – On 18 May 2004, Jean Célestin Edjangué, a journalist with the newspaper “Le Messager” (“The Messenger”), published in Douala, was manhandled by police while covering a demonstration protesting the issuing of entry visas outside the French Consulate. In its 19 May edition, the paper reported that a police officer and six of his […]
(JED/IFEX) – On 18 May 2004, Jean Célestin Edjangué, a journalist with the newspaper “Le Messager” (“The Messenger”), published in Douala, was manhandled by police while covering a demonstration protesting the issuing of entry visas outside the French Consulate.
In its 19 May edition, the paper reported that a police officer and six of his colleagues intercepted Edjangué and brusquely seized his camera by twisting his wrists. The journalist managed to escape from the officer’s grasp with the help of protesters.
