Cameroon: Ailing Cameroonian Journalist Must Be Freed Before It Is Too Late

press release

After visiting Amadou Vamoulké, the detained former director-general of Cameroon's state-owned radio and TV broadcaster, CRTV, in prison, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the continuing decline in his state of health and calls for him to be medevacked to receive the specialized hospital care he badly needs.

Held for the past three years and three months in Yaoundé's Kondengui prison on an unsubstantiated charge of misusing state funds to benefit CRTV, Vamoulké is due to appear before Cameroon's Special Criminal Court (TCS) for the 24th time today. At tomorrow's hearing, the court is expected to rule on his lawyer's request for his provisional release on the grounds of the extremely worrying deterioration in his health, which RSF saw for itself when it visited him in Kondengui prison. Vamoulké told RSF that he has "pains in both feet that keep him awake at night" and that he has received no treatment for the neuropathy, a condition affecting the peripheral nerves, that was diagnosed in September.

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