Cameroonian journalist jailed on defamation charge

New York, March 28, 2013–An appellate court in Cameroon should overturn the defamation conviction and jail sentence handed to a newspaper editor on Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A criminal court judge in Douala, the commercial capital, sentenced Jean-Marie Tchatchouang, editor of the weekly Paroles, to two months in prison, and ordered [...]