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Polycarpe Essomba

Gender: Male
Radio Journalist
  • Organisation: RFI
  • Case: Torture
  • Culprit: Cameroonian police
  • Country: Cameroon
  • City: Douala

A Radio France Internationale correspondent was violently beaten by police and several journalists had their equipment seized during a banned opposition demonstration in Cameroon. Essomba had to go to the hospital to treat for the headache and pains in his feet caused by the police beating a day earlier as he attended the opposition demonstration, which had been banned by the authorities.

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