Open AccessLe Messager: Saved by the streets
Author(s) -
Pius N. Njawe
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
index on censorship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.11
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1746-6067
pISSN - 0306-4220
DOI - 10.1080/03064229108535117
Subject(s) - history , political science , sentence , media studies , humanities , art , sociology , linguistics , philosophy
On 17 January, Pius Njawe, editor-in-chief of the independent Cameroon weekly Le Messager, received a six-month suspended sentence for insulting members of the National Assembly. Deprived of his passport, he was unable to attend the conference on the press in Africa organised by Unesco and the Panos Institute in Paris at the end of the month. The following address was delivered in absentia to the gathering.
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