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Decree in Cameroon Unjustifiably Censors Free Speech

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Cameroon's parliament in Yaoundé, November 17, 2017. © 2017 AFP via Getty Images It is becoming increasingly difficult to speak freely in Cameroon.In a decree issued on July 16, Emmanuel Mariel Djikdent, the head of the Mfoundi division, where the capital Yaoundé is situated, stated that “anyone who dangerously insults the [state] institutions or the person who embodies them,” could be banned from staying in the division. Djikdent issued this decree to “preserve public order.”Two days later, René Emmanuel Sadi, the communication minister, issued…

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