{"id":177557,"date":"2024-07-30T09:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-social-media-activist-arrested-in-cameroon-over-social-media-posts\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:32:46","slug":"cameroon-social-media-activist-arrested-in-cameroon-over-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-social-media-activist-arrested-in-cameroon-over-social-media-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Social Media Activist Arrested in Cameroon Over Social Media Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>Free Junior Ngombe, Drop Charges, Respect Freedom of Expression<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Calling for political change can land you in jail in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a>, a country ruled by the same president for 42 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"86\">On July 24, three men in plain clothes claiming to work for the intelligence services arrested Junior Ngombe, 23, a hairdresser and social media activist, outside his shop in Douala, a city in Cameroon&#8217;s Littoral region. According to his lawyers, Ngombe was taken to a gendarmerie post in Douala before being transferred&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407300002.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>Free Junior Ngombe, Drop Charges, Respect Freedom of Expression Calling for political change can land you in jail in Cameroon, a country ruled by the same president for 42 years. On July 24, three men in plain clothes claiming to work for the intelligence services arrested Junior Ngombe, 23, a hairdresser and social media activist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[8956,258,256,4304,4698,377,4959,257,7032,3577,254],"class_list":["post-177557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-media","tag-news","tag-posts","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177557","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=177557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}