{"id":178465,"date":"2024-08-13T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroonian-social-media-activist-feared-forcibly-disappeared\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:06:02","slug":"cameroonian-social-media-activist-feared-forcibly-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroonian-social-media-activist-feared-forcibly-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroonian Social Media Activist Feared Forcibly Disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Confirm Steve Akam&#8217;s Detention and Location, Release Him<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MKPDjr\/videos\/ramon-cotta-arrested-beggs-president-paul-biya-for-forgiveness\/1220551765640717\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> circulated on social media on July 21, Steve Akam, alias Ramon Cotta, a Cameroonian social media activist, stands before a barrier in an outdoor space, handcuffed and surrounded by members of the Cameroonian police. It was the last time he was seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Human Rights Watch contacted sources in Cameroon, and geolocated and analyzed the video, determining it was filmed between July 19 and July 21 at a <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/4yVS65PNfqogek336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border post<\/a> between Gabon and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408130439.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>Confirm Steve Akam&#8217;s Detention and Location, Release Him In a video circulated on social media on July 21, Steve Akam, alias Ramon Cotta, a Cameroonian social media activist, stands before a barrier in an outdoor space, handcuffed and surrounded by members of the Cameroonian police. It was the last time he was seen. Human Rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00600946:a5acf5c04250b1989b17579d5a048cbc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[8956,258,256,377,382,33678,10451,7656,4959,257,3577,254],"class_list":["post-178465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonian","tag-disappeared","tag-feared","tag-forcibly","tag-media","tag-news","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00600946:a5acf5c04250b1989b17579d5a048cbc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178465","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=178465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}