A Cameroonian media tycoon arrested in February in connection with the murder of prominent journalist Martinez Zogo has been charged with complicity in torture and given a six-month pre-trial detention in the Kondengui Main Prison in the capital Yaounde.
Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga and his co-accused were transferred from the national gendarmerie headquarters—where they underwent questioning for 25 days—to the prison on March 25, a day after making their second appearance at the Military Court in the capital.
Among the more than 20 other accused sent to Kondengui alongside Amougou Belinga are Leopold Maxime Eko Eko, head of the General Directorate for External Research (similar to the FBI), and its director of operations Justin Danwe….