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Outspoken critic and journalist detained but not yet charged by Cameroonian authorities (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 1, 2018

Michel Biem Tong, editor of the privately owned Hurinews website, was summoned to the State Secretariat for Defense in the capital, Yaoundé and detained without being charged.
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