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Stony Brook Professor Released in Cameroon

January 7, 2018

Stony Brook Professor Released in Cameroon

Patrice Nganang, a NY literature professor held in Cameroon for writing an article critical of the government has been released and expelled from the country. Dr. Nganang was freed from prison but told he was never to return to Cameroon, the country of his birth. ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Cameroon, CCS Cases, Good News Tagged With: Cameroon, Expelled, Nganang, Patrice Nganang, Professor

US Stony Brook Professor Arrested in Cameroon for Facebook Post Insulting President and Army

December 24, 2017

US Stony Brook Professor Arrested in Cameroon for Facebook Post Insulting President and Army

Dr. Patrice Nganang, a novelist and professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University in the United States has been arrested in Cameroon for a Facebook post critical of the government policies in the Anglophone region.  He is being held in a maximum security prison in Yaounde.  He is being held for peacefully exercising his right to free expression. CCS has ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Cameroon, CCS Cases Tagged With: Facebook, Nganang, Patrice Nganang, scholar, Stony Brook

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