Kramer Levin Wins Asylum for Cameroonian Journalist

Kramer Levin won asylum for a Cameroonian man threatened for his unbiased and fearless reporting on sensitive political issues in his native Cameroon. Our client was a national figure as a television news journalist and anchor on one of the few independent news channels in Cameroon. He received many threats as he gained national prominence and continued his critical and impartial reporting of government officials and policies. While our client was in the United States this past summer for journalism conferences, a woman living in his former residence was mistaken for his wife and raped by unknown men seeking to intimidate her husband the "journalist." Our client and his wife decided it was no longer safe for him to return to Cameroon and he sought pro bono assistance with his application for asylum and was referred to Kramer Levin through Catholic Charities. Kramer Levin was able to prove that our client's independent reporting in conjunction with the past, violent threats against him and his family made it unsafe for him to return to Cameroon and his petition for asylum was granted. Sarah Schindler-Williams, Edwin Hermawan and Aaron Frankel worked on the case.