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Another Journalist in Mali Sentenced to Prison
Human Rights Watch

Another Journalist in Mali Sentenced to Prison

By Human Rights Watch·

Quash Charges and Release Abdramane Keïta

  • Photo: Abdramane Keïta, director of the newspaper Le Témoin (The Witness), Bamako, Mali. © Private

A national cybercrime court in Mali on September 14 sentenced a prominent journalist, Abdramane Keïta, to two years in prison on bogus charges, in the military government’s latest attack on media freedom.

A national cybercrime court in Mali on September 14 sentenced a prominent journalist, Abdramane Keïta, to two years in prison on bogus charges, in the military government’s latest attack on media freedom.