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Cameroon: Top New York Lawyers File Case With UN Over Jailed Journalist

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The foundation set up by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and her husband, movie star George, is taking up with the United Nations the case of independent journalist Paul Chouta, who has been held in pre-trial detention for the past 18 months.

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