Simon Mol

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Simon Mol

Simon Mol (November 6, 1973 in Buea, Cameroon) is pen name of Simon Moleke Njie, a Cameroon-born journalist, writer and political activist, known mainly in Poland.

Njie was born in English speaking family in former British Cameroon. In June 1999 he arrived in Poland as a member of Ghanaian PEN Club delegation on a PEN annual congress in Warsaw. Immediately, Mol applied for asylum which was granted in September 2000.

In Poland he 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, 2006 Njie was taken into custody by the Polish police and charged with knowingly criminal transmissing of HIV women. According to newspaper Rzeczpospolita 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 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.

As of early January 2007 four women have been identified with HIV, 20 are waiting for test results. Several women had informed Mol that they had contracted HIV from him but he ignored it. Before Christmas 2006 rumors 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.