{"id":7221,"date":"2020-06-06T05:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T04:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:11:06","slug":"amdf-expresses-shock-over-death-of-cameroonian-journalist-wazizi-while-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2020\/06\/06\/amdf-expresses-shock-over-death-of-cameroonian-journalist-wazizi-while-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"AMDF Expresses Shock Over Death Of Cameroonian Journalist, Wazizi, While In Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna (Nigeria) 6th June, 2020: Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) receives with shock the news of the death of Cameroonian Journalist, Samuel Wazizi, who died in custody, describing it as unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman of Cameroonian Ministry of Defence, Colonel Cyrille Serge Atonfack, on Friday issued a statement saying the journalist died of sepsis since 17th August last year.<\/p>\n<p>Many Press Freedom organisations, including Wazizi\u2019s family and friends had made appeals for his release while alive, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>The military report denied torturing him, adding that his family was in contact with him. However, in a phone conversation with Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Wazizi\u2019s sister-in-law, Metete Joan Njang, said his \u201cfamily had not been able to contact him since shortly after his arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameroonian Police arrested Wazizi on 2nd August 2019 and handed him over to the military on 7th August, since then he had not been seen or heard of.<\/p>\n<p>AMDF urges Cameroonian authorities to investigate and unravel circumstances that led to Wazizi\u2019s death while in military custody.<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna (Nigeria) 6th June, 2020: Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) receives with shock the news of the death of Cameroonian Journalist, Samuel Wazizi, who died in custody, describing it as&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2020\/06\/06\/amdf-expresses-shock-over-death-of-cameroonian-journalist-wazizi-while-in-custody\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13724,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions\/13724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}