(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is highlighting the case of the weekly newspaper “La Plume du Jour”. On 11 September 1997, a ministerial decree ordered the seizure of the sixtieth issue of the weekly, dated 10 September, further to the publication of two articles titled: “A moraliser without morals” and “Who benefits from prisons?” These articles questioned […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is highlighting the case of the weekly newspaper “La Plume
du Jour”. On 11 September 1997, a ministerial decree ordered the seizure of
the sixtieth issue of the weekly, dated 10 September, further to the
publication of two articles titled: “A moraliser without morals” and “Who
benefits from prisons?” These articles questioned the origin of funds which
allowed the Head of State to purchase a number of properties, and problems
of the Cameroonian penal administration, respectively. The next day, a
second decree from the territorial administration ministry suspended the
newspaper indefinitely.
**Updates IFEX alert of 25 May 1999**
In addition, the mother of Aimé Mathurin Moussi, the editor-in-chief of “La
Plume du Jour” who is currently in France, was questioned by information
services agents on 9 June 1999 in Douala. The police officers were seeking
information about her son.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to the minister of the territorial administration:
treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, which guarantees the freedom to “…impart information and ideas of
all kinds…”
editor-in-chief’s mother
family is not troubled in his absence
Appeals To
Mr. Samson Ename Ename
Minister of the Territorial Administration
Yaoundé, Cameroun
Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
