Cameroon’s anti-terrorism law impedes press freedoms – CPJ report

By Elah Geoffrey Mbongale The Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ has indicted Cameroon for using the ‘anti-terror’ law to arrest and threaten journalists, creating a climate of fear among political reporters and other journalists. The anti-terrorism law was enacted in 2014 to counter the insurgence of the Boko Haram islamist terror group which has been responsible for numerous attacks, deaths and destruction in the northern part of the country. In a report that was released last Wednesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said the anti-terror law was being used to silence media workers who report on Boko Haram, or…