Samuel Wazizi, a Cameroonian journalist who was arrested in August accused of criticising the government’s handling of a separatist revolt, took his last breath in detention, the rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said.
Wazizi worked in CMTV, a local broadcasting channel established in the south-west region, one of the areas where the separatists initiated an armed programme in 2017 to construct an independent livelihood for Cameroon’s English-speaking minority.
RSF gave a statement that “Wazizi died in detention,” and called for a “transparent and credible investigation” into what happened on Wednesday.
On August 2, 2019, he was arrested and was accused of speaking decisively on the air about the officials and their handling of the problem,” the journalist said.
After five days, he was sent from a police station in the city of Buea to the local headquarters of the army’s Infantry Battalion, but then, neither his family nor his lawyers were allowed to have any kind of connection with him or given any information, it said.
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Data source: RSF Report