Nigeria, Aug. 16 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Cameroonian authorities to release George Lekeaka, who has been held incommunicado since Monday for publishing a photo of security officers on patrol during clashes with separatist fighters.

"George Atabong Lekeaka should not have been arrested for attempting to provide the public with security information, let alone secretly detained without access to a lawyer or his family, in violation of his rights," said Moussa Ngom, CPJ's Francophone Africa representative. "Cameroonian authorities should immediately disclose Lekeaka's whereabouts, release him, and refrain from targeting journalists for covering the Anglophone crisis."

The Anglophone crisis began in 2016 with protest...