Hans Achomba Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Cameroonian journalists, from left, Atia Tilarious Azohnwi, Tim Finnian, and Hans Achomba are released from prison. (Family handouts)

Cameroon releases three journalists jailed under anti-terror law

September 1, 2017 1:57 PM EDT

New York, September 1, 2017–The office of President Paul Biya announced August 30 that Cameroon is ending criminal proceedings against those detained during unrest in the country’s two English-speaking regions. Atia Tilarious Azohnwi, political editor of The Sun, Tim Finnian, editor of Life Time magazine, and Hans Achomba, a freelance documentary filmmaker, are among those…

Cameroonian police detain freelance documentary maker on terrorism charges

August 21, 2017 12:43 PM EDT

Police arrested Hans Achomba, a Cameroonian freelance journalist and documentary film-maker, in Bamenda on January 23, 2017, according to his wife, Lilian Shiya.

CPJ asks Confederation of African Football to urge release of jailed Cameroonian journalists

July 6, 2017 5:24 PM EDT

Ahmad Ahmad President of the Confederation of African Football 3 Abdel Khalek Sarwat Street, 6th October City 12566, Egypt Via Email: info@cafonline.com Via Facsimile: +20-2/3824 7274 July 6, 2017 Dear Mr. Ahmad, We at the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international, independent nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving press freedom, ask that the Confederation of African…