Wikipedista:Dezidor/Simon Mol
Simon Mol (November 6, 1973 in Buea, Cameroon) is pen name of Simon Moleke Njie, a Cameroon-born journalist, writer and left-wing activist, known mainly in Poland.
Life in Africa editovat
Njie was born into an English-speaking family in former British Cameroon. His own autogiography states that he worked as a journalist, was persecuted and jailed for his writing, sought political asylum in several African countries, was granted asylum in Ghana where he was persecuted again.
On March 6, 2007 newspaper Rzeczpospolita published an article (Na tropie oszusta Simona Mola by Bertold Kittel and Maja Narbutt in cooperation with Anna Machowska from TVN) how his biography was fabricated. An editor of the Cameroonian English language weekly The Sketch denied that Njie worked for them, his mother told he was employed at a refinery, didn't write about government corruption in Cameroon and was not jailed in the 1996. A representative of Ghanaian journalists said that while in Ghana Njie published newspaper articles about football and was never arrested in this country.
Life in Poland editovat
In June 1999 he arrived in Poland as a member of Ghanaian PEN Club delegation on a PEN annual congress in Warsaw. Immediately, Njie applied for asylum, which was granted in September 2000.
In Poland he, adopting pen name Simon Mol, wrote poems, founded a small theater called Migrator Theatre [1] and engaged in political campaigns for the rights of refugees, anti-racism, anti-fascism and environmental protection.
On January 5, 2007 Njie was taken into custody by the Polish police and charged with infecting his sexual partners with HIV. According to the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, he was identified with HIV back in 1999 while living in a refugee shelter, but the Polish law was unable to force a HIV carrier to reveal the disease to his partners or to order a treatment. When living in Poland Mol allegedly persuaded women to have unprotected sex with him by arguing that using a condom with a black man is a sign of racism and racist fears.
By July 2007 fourteen women have been identified with HIV, while others are waiting for test results. Several women had informed Mol that they had contracted HIV from him but he ignored it. Before Christmas 2006 rumours of Mol's infection started to spread over the internet; he explicitly denied them in a public letter. After the arrest Mol denied any knowledge of being an HIV carrier and accused the police of racism.
External links editovat
- Mol's website
- Overview of Mol's life in Poland and the arrest (January 2007)