{"id":177144,"date":"2024-07-23T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-decree-in-cameroon-unjustifiably-censors-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:16:46","slug":"cameroon-decree-in-cameroon-unjustifiably-censors-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-decree-in-cameroon-unjustifiably-censors-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Decree in Cameroon Unjustifiably Censors Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Revoke Decree, Ensure Right to Freedom of Expression<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">It is becoming increasingly difficult to speak freely in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Koaci\/status\/1813924108700418108\">decree<\/a> issued on July 16, Emmanuel Mariel Djikdent, the head of the Mfoundi division, where the capital Yaound\u00e9 is situated, stated that &#8220;anyone who dangerously insults the [state] institutions or the person who embodies them,&#8221; could be banned from staying in the division. Djikdent issued this decree to &#8220;preserve public order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Two days later, Ren\u00e9 Emmanuel Sadi, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407230461.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Yaound\u00e9 is situated, stated that &#8220;anyone who dangerously insults the [state] institutions or the person who embodies them,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00261952:6a87936825cc0126a8f561d8559b8cf9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,12202,8680,6544,257,254,8769,49125],"class_list":["post-177144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-censors","tag-decree","tag-free","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speech","tag-unjustifiably"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00261952:6a87936825cc0126a8f561d8559b8cf9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}