(RSF/IFEX) – Moustapha Sow, the managing editor of the Dakar-based daily “L’Office”, was freed conditionally on 14 July 2006 pending the outcome of his appeal against his conviction on a charge of libelling Bara Tall, the CEO of a construction company. The release hearing should have been held on 7 July 2006 but was postponed […]
(RSF/IFEX) – Moustapha Sow, the managing editor of the Dakar-based daily “L’Office”, was freed conditionally on 14 July 2006 pending the outcome of his appeal against his conviction on a charge of libelling Bara Tall, the CEO of a construction company. The release hearing should have been held on 7 July 2006 but was postponed a week by Dakar appeal court judge Boubacar Diallo.
After being sentenced by a Dakar court to six months in prison in the Tall case in May, Sow began serving his sentence on 29 June and had spent two weeks in prison when the release request filed by his lawyers was finally held by the Dakar appeal court.
