Court orders four-month suspended sentences for two editors
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 5 March 2007, the Bamako Commune II County Court sentenced managing editor Diaby Makoro Camara, and editor-in-chief Oumar Bouaré, of “Kabako”, a privately-owned, monthly newspaper, to a four-month suspended sentence for defaming Mariamantia Diarra, Minister of Planning and the Interior. Camara and Bouaré were ordered to pay an amount of 50,000 FCFA […]
Six radio station staff sentenced to one month in prison with no parole for broadcasting without a licence
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the disproportionate verdict carried out against six Radio Kayira staff in Niono (Centre), who were arrested on 23 and 24 August 2006, after police shut down the station because it was operating without a licence. “The six Radio Kayira staff have already spent one week in prison over […]
Newspaper editors fined, newspaper ordered to pay damages to politician
(MFWA/IFEX) – “L’Inter de Bamako”, a weekly independent newspaper, was ordered on 26 April 2006 by a local magistrate court to pay damages of 300,000 CFA Francs (approx. US$580) to Diacounda Traore, chairman of the opposition Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (Alliance pour la Démocratie en Mali-Parti Pan-Africain pour la […]
Radio journalist abducted, beaten and left for dead
(WAJA/IFEX) – The following is a WAJA press release: Dakar, 5 July 2005 Malian journalist attacked Dakar – The Mali Journalists’ Union (UNAJOM) has reported that Hamidou Diarra, alias “Dragon”, a journalist with Bamako’s Radio Kélédou, was abducted by a group of unidentified persons while leaving his radio station on Tuesday 5 July 2005, at […]
CPJ concerned about jailing of three journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ letter to President Amadou Toumani Toure: November 5, 2003 His Excellency Amadou Toumani Toure President of the Republic of Mali Présidence Koulouba, Bamako Mali By facsimile: 011-223-223-0043 Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is disturbed by the continued imprisonment of three journalists working for privately owned […]
Public television director sentenced to one month in prison for defamation
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the president of the Superior Council of the Magistracy, Alpha Oumar Konaré, RSF protested the sentencing of Sidiki Konaté, director-general of the Malian Radio-television Bureau (Office de radio-télévision du Mali, ORTM), to one month in prison for defamation. The organisation recalled that in a document published in January 2000, […]
Ruling party MP assaults journalist
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Aly Nouhoum Diallo, president of the National Assembly, RSF expressed its concern about the assault on Chahana Takiou, a journalist with the private biweekly “L’Indépendant”, by a ruling party member of parliament (MP). RSF asked the National Assembly president to “make a public statement calling for the punishment of […]
Journalist attacked
(RSF/IFEX) – According to information released by RSF on 14 May 1998, during the night of 5 or 6 May, Cheick Oumar Konare, a journalist and director of publishing with the private daily “Sud-Info”, was attacked by unknown assailants. While walking in Bamako (the capital city), the journalist was kidnapped by ten men who forced […]
“Nouvel Horizon” journalist Mamadou Dabo arrested
On the morning of 6 June 1995, Mamadou Dabo, a journalist with the daily “Nouvel Horizon”, was arrested in Bamako, Mali. He was arrested at 10:00 am by two agents of the Mali secret service who took him away in a police car. He was interrogated for two hours by the assistant director of State […]