Press Release: CJA-Africa resolute on Press Freedom in Cameroon

For over four months, the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) Africa and the Cameroon Branch have been closely following the media situation in Cameroon with grave concern following the Cameroon Common Law Lawyers and Anglophone Teachers’ Associations on agitations sit-in strikes to press for inherited cultural, legal and education demands. The strike that unfortunately saw Students of the University of Buea caught in the web with many of them tortured, maimed, and wounded in November 2016 has painted Cameroon in very strange colours. The SUN’s Atia Tilarious and 8 other journalists have spent more than 63 days behind bars without being…