Military Detains Pidgin News Anchor Samuel Wazizi

[CPJ] New York -Cameroonian authorities should immediately release without charge pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police arrested Wazizi 11 days ago and handed him over to the military, which has since held him without access to his lawyer or family in Buea, the capital of the country’s English-speaking Southwest region, according to his lawyer and local news reports.

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