This archive report was first published on 4 July 2019.
On July 3, 2019, a Swiss court handed suspended sentences to at least five members of Cameroon President Paul Biya's security team for their alleged involvement in an assault on a journalist in Geneva.
According to a statement by the regional government, a criminal complaint was filed by a journalist working for Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) who alleged that he was assaulted in front of a hotel while covering a demonstration by opponents of the Cameroonian president last week.
The journalist was slightly injured and his equipment damaged, the statement said.
President Paul Biya has been in power for more than 36 years and won another seven-year term in 2018.
He's been criticized by some for a supposedly "hands-off" style of rule and his frequent foreign travels, with a report by investigative journalists estimating that he spent nearly 60 days out of the country in 2017 on private visits.
