Cameroon: Editor released from prison after paying fine

Jean-Bosco Talla, the editor of the privately-owned weekly Germinal, was released from Yaoundé’s Kondengui prison on January 13 after paying the fine imposed by a court on December 28 on a charge of insulting the president, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported.

Talla, who described himself as “calm,” told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Germinal would continue to be published “without any change to its editorial line.”

 
 
Date Posted: 15 January 2010 Last Modified: 15 January 2010