Cameroon Uses Anti-Terror Law to Silence Critical Press

[PR Newswire] New York -Cameroon’s broadly worded anti-terror law is being used by authorities to arrest and threaten local journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in a report released today. The report, “Journalists Not Terrorists: In Cameroon, anti-terror legislation is used to silence critics and suppress dissent,” finds that despite a presidential decree ending legal proceedings against at least four journalists, the law that was used against them is still in place as next year’s elections approach.