Raphael Nkamtchuen editor of La Boussole, a daily newspaper published in Cameroon has been arrested by the military police on the 17 February after a friendly visit to a former economics and finance minister Abah Abah who is in detention and accused of corruption and embezzlement.
Raphael has a permission to visit the prisoner in jail and after his visit he was arrested according to his wife Mrs Etchong Nguinda Michelle.
Speaking on the phone, she said that her husband has spent three days without having a shower and even has to spent the night sleeping on the ground floor and no familial visit is allowed since he was detained by the military police in Kondengui region in the capital city of Cameroon.
He has been facing tough interrogation about documents that have been given to him by the former government minister, mental torture and human rights abuses are been used against him.
Authorities want him to release documents that he was given by the former minister now prisoner and awaiting final decision from his trial that still pending.
In Cameroon in order to visit someone in prison you must have a visit permit delivered by the department of justice and the editor according to his wife has that permit.
It said that Raphael has been giving confidential documents that could bring alight more details about corruption in the heart of Biya regime and it is why he is been held without charges in detention.
This is another blow for the freedom of information in Cameroon and also for investigative journalism that still danger to practice under Biya 29`s year reign.
Many journalist associations around the world now are asking for his immediate release from unlawful arrest and arbitrary detention.
Speaking on the phone, she said that her husband has spent three days without having a shower and even has to spent the night sleeping on the ground floor and no familial visit is allowed since he was detained by the military police in Kondengui region in the capital city of Cameroon.
He has been facing tough interrogation about documents that have been given to him by the former government minister, mental torture and human rights abuses are been used against him.
Authorities want him to release documents that he was given by the former minister now prisoner and awaiting final decision from his trial that still pending.
In Cameroon in order to visit someone in prison you must have a visit permit delivered by the department of justice and the editor according to his wife has that permit.
It said that Raphael has been giving confidential documents that could bring alight more details about corruption in the heart of Biya regime and it is why he is been held without charges in detention.
This is another blow for the freedom of information in Cameroon and also for investigative journalism that still danger to practice under Biya 29`s year reign.
Many journalist associations around the world now are asking for his immediate release from unlawful arrest and arbitrary detention.
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