The court said it jailed the students for not reporting terrorism-related information.

Three Cameroonian students, Fomusoh Ivo Feh, Afuh Nivelle Nfor and Azah Levis Gob who were convicted for sharing a Boko Haram joke, have been released.

According to a statement by Amnesty International, the students were released after spending seven years in jail.

The rights group also faulted the arrest and conviction of the Cameroonian students stressing that they exercised their right to freedom of expression.

“These three students who were only exercising their right to freedom of expression should never have been arrested in the first place,” Amnesty said in the statement.

“The Cameroonian authorities must protect human rights and ensure that everyone can speak out freely without fear of reprisal.”

The organisation disclosed that the students were released after Cameroon’s Supreme Court reduced their jail term to five years.

The students have been in detention since January 2015 but were later sentenced to 10 years in prison by a military court in November 2016.

According to the statement, the court said it jailed the students for not reporting terrorism-related information.

However, the rights organisation argued that the students were punished against logic.

Amnesty International explained that the joke shared by the students was passed as a comment on the difficulty of finding a good job without being highly qualified.

In 2014, one of the convicted students had shared a text message he received from a friend.

The text message said Boko Haram was recruiting young people that passed at least four exam subjects.

The message was eventually seen by a teacher who confiscated the student’s phone and showed it to the police.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/12/28/three-students-jailed-sharing-boko-haram-joke-released-after-seven-years

In Far away Cameroon??

Ok oo

Serious country

Interesting...

@Seniorwriter

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The court said it jailed the students for not reporting terrorism-related information.


The students have been in detention since January 2015 but were later sentenced to 10 years in prison by a military court in November 2016.






http://saharareporters.com/2021/12/28/three-students-jailed-sharing-boko-haram-joke-released-after-seven-years


Lalasticlala

I'm not understanding

Why will a military court be sentencing civilian to jail?

What system of government is Cameroon running?

This is a joke!

All these useless African leaders sef

Dammam

My brother really sick comedy! Why take a sad situation and make it worse with degrading comedy.

I hope you guys have learned your lesson

This cannot happen in Nigeria where the president himself is a joke to us. Nija has a way of turning an unfavourable situation to make a funny caricature out of it just to sooth the psychological thriller and stress of it's outcome.

Cameroon needs to be calming down. They lack logic in deciphering a common sense understanding and sarcasm associated with youths of that age, and a serious situation that calls for order. This case needs to be redress again in the international court of law. 7years for such comment is wrong. Anyway, I am not the law.








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In Nigeria real terrorists are patted on the back and will be given a cow each as part of their repentance.

They just ended up wasting a good number of these guys productive years

You put someone in jail for joking about Boko Haram. When you were asked about, because there's no law condemning what they did, you lied that they didn't reporting a terrorism related information...

Africa is in a mess man.

But we will scale through.

See how to buy Wakanda Inu here.

StaffofOrayan:
All these useless African leaders sef

There cups don dey full

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Ok

Amnesty go sleep, no one hears from you hypocrites when cannibals are eating Nigerians, and when terrorists are killing and raping young girls and families...is amnesty Nigeria, our friend?

I don't think.

Chai seven years wasted

And here in Nigeria, the government give the real bolo haram first class treatment.


I hope Buhari is reading this news.

Various governments in Africa chase shadows while leaving the main problem. That's how stupid MuhaMAD Buhari has been chasing peaceful agitators while pampering confirmed terrorists who go about kidnapping and killing innocent citizens

A lot of people commenting didn't read the write up. The joke was a very harmless one, but it being shared in a class among students is suspicious. In all, the students would have simply been cautioned instead of taking it this far. The penalty too much ni

ignis:
Serious country

Serious country because they destroyed the lives of those young men?

Ambazonia people and shit.

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