Cameroon: Decree in Cameroon Unjustifiably Censors Free Speech

Revoke Decree, Ensure Right to Freedom of Expression

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…