{"id":177655,"date":"2024-07-31T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T19:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-arrests-activist-over-tiktok-posts-says-hrw\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T19:35:30","slug":"cameroon-arrests-activist-over-tiktok-posts-says-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-arrests-activist-over-tiktok-posts-says-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Arrests Activist Over TikTok Posts, Says HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em> Cameroon has imprisoned an activist who posted videos on TikTok urging democratic change ahead of 2025 presidential elections, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Social media activist Junior Ngombe was arrested outside his shop in the western city of Douala on 24 July by three plainclothes men claiming to be intelligence officers, the rights group said in a statement published Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The arrest of the 23-year-old activist, who is also a hairdresser, has prompted an outcry over what international&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407310335.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>Cameroon has imprisoned an activist who posted videos on TikTok urging democratic change ahead of 2025 presidential elections, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. Social media activist Junior Ngombe was arrested outside his shop in the western city of Douala on 24 July by three plainclothes men claiming to be intelligence officers, the rights group said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177656,"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":[8956,258,256,7845,4698,377,1463,257,7032,254,33857],"class_list":["post-177655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-hrw","tag-news","tag-posts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tiktok"],"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\/177655","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=177655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}