Lewis Medjo, editor of the Cameroon weekly La Détente Libre, is serving a three-year jail sentence for "spreading false news" about the country's president, Paul Biya. The paper's August 2008 story claimed that Biya had urged the president of the supreme court to take early retirement.
Medjo, who has suffered two heart attacks since his arrest last year, is the fourth newspaper editor jailed in Cameroon since September 2007. This makes the country the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa, says the Committee to Protect Journalists. (Via CPJ)
