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Cameroon: Lapiro back in court
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Lapiro back in court
Singer Lapiro de Mbanga has filed a case against the Chief Medical Officer of the Douala Central Prison for having denied him access to medical attention while in prison
Bisong Etahoben reported from Douala
Cameroon: First video interview after Lapiro's release from prison
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
First video interview after Lapiro's release from prison

Singer Lapiro de Mbanga was interviewed on 8 May 2011 — his first video interview since he was released from prison in Douala on 8 April after three years imprisonm
Cameroon: Singer Lapiro de Mbanga released from prison
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Singer Lapiro de Mbanga released from prison

Singer Lapiro de Mbanga was released from New Bell Prison in Douala on Friday 8 April 2011 at 2 pm after three years imprisonment under harsh conditions.

The release was n
Cameroon: Lapiro appears at the Supreme Court
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Lapiro appears at the Supreme Court
On Thursday 17 March 2011, just three weeks before the musician’s planned release from prison, Lapiro’s case was called to the Cameroon Supreme Court for what appeared to be superflous
Cameroon: Freemuse visits Lapiro in prison
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Freemuse visits Lapiro in prison
After years of international campaigning, Freemuse finally managed to have a personal meeting with the musician Lapiro de Mbanga who has been imprisoned in Cameroon since 2008.

Freemuse Pr
Music Freedom Day: Local ownership creates diversity of innovative events
MUSIC FREEDOM DAY
09 August 2010
Marie Korpe, Executive Director of Freemuse:
Local ownership to the event develops
great diversity of innovative events
Music Freedom Day 2011: An exiled DJ returned to Kabul, music was smuggled out from Burma, and Freemuse visited
Cameroon: Lapiro - behind bars in Cameroon, behind a mic in Brooklyn
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon / USA:
Behind bars in Cameroon, behind a mic in Brooklyn
Singer Lapiro de Mbanga joins by phone from jail in Cameroon as U.S. Afro-pop band performs his banned song live in New York
Coming to the stage in Brooklyn: The Cameroonia
Cameroon: Interview with singer Lapiro de Mbanga in ‘Smashed Hits 2.0’
CAMPAIGN ARTICLE
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Voice to the voiceless
In ‘Smashed Hits 2.0’, Cameroonian singer Lapiro de Mbanga gives an exclusive interview to Daniel Brown from prison on protest, politics and the art of satire
Since his return from self-imposed exile i
Cameroon: Musicians are silent after Lapiro’s imprisonment
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Musicians are silent after Lapiro’s imprisonment
The fact that Lapiro is in prison for his music has discouraged other artists in the country to create any kind of innovative projects or critical song lyrics, writes a reporter
Cameroon: Lapiro fires back at Minister of Communication
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Lapiro fires back at Minister of Communication
Lapiro de Mbanga, imprisoned since 2008 retaliates at Minister of Communication Issa Bakary Tchiroma, who on 30 July 2010 announced that Cameroon did not host any political prisoners.
Cameroon: International Pen and Freemuse in joint appeal for Lapiro
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
International Pen and Freemuse in
joint appeal for singer Lapiro de Mbanga
African Human Rights organisations and monitoring systems are urged to act on behalf of singer Lapiro de Mbanga.
In a joint appeal letter Internati
Cameroon/Denmark: Danish minister drawn into Lapiro de Mbanga's case
NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon / Denmark:
Danish minister for development cooperation
drawn into singer Lapiro de Mbanga's case
Danish opposition parties demands investigation of financial support to co-owned Maersk company which has been accused of inhuman working con
Cameroon: Lapiro de Mbanga’s legal team files petition to United Nations
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon / USA:
Lapiro de Mbanga’s legal team files
petition to United Nations

On 16 June 2010, the international legal team for Lapiro de Mbanga filed an urgent action petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detenti
Cameroon: United Nations secretary-general urged to speak up for Lapiro
CAMPAIGN NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon / USA:
United Nations secretary-general urged
to speak up for Lapiro de Mbanga

The secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, visits Cameroon on 10 June 2010. By sending a letter to him, the American legal advoc
Cameroon: Maersk Group accused for involvement in case against Lapiro
NEWS
09 August 2010
Cameroon:
Maersk Group accused for involvement in case against Lapiro
In two articles published by the Danish magazine 3F and the newspaper Information on 22 May 2010, A.P. Moller - Maersk Group, the worldwide conglomerate operating in around 130 count