Unfair libel trial ends in heavy fine, suspended jail sentence for leading journalist
Abdou Latif Coulibaly and two of his colleagues have been fined 30,000 euros and given one-month suspended jail sentences in a libel case dating to 2007.
Several journalists assaulted by police while covering demonstration
Najib Sagne’s camera and Moussa Thiam’s dictaphone were confiscated by police officers when the journalists resisted gram: arrest.
Newspaper editor gets six months in prison for defaming president’s chief of staff
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Abdourahmane Diallo who was tried in absentia but has not yet been detained.
Minister’s loyalists assault journalist, threaten him with death
The attack followed an article Najib Sagna wrote about Deputy Minister of Justice and Human Rights Coumba Gaye.
Police raid printing house, halt printing newspaper
The police was trying to prevent the publication of a petition that demanded a probe into a “missing” sum paid to the government by a privately-owned telecommunications group.
ARTICLE 19 welcomes formation of national committee for adoption of a law on access to information
A committee that includes ARTICLE 19 will work with the local Transparency International chapter to ensure that the draft law is in line with international standards.
Court grants bail to two detained journalists
The journalists were arrested on 18 September 2009 following a complaint by the governor of Kaffrine.
ARTICLE 19 condemns attacks against Wal Fadjri media group and its journalists
The attack followed the publication of an article stating that a religious leader was supporting the president in return for donations.
Two journalists arrested, charged after reporting on local government corruption
CPJ urges president to decriminalise press offenses and address culture of impunity.
“Le Quotidien” journalists interrogated
Three journalists were interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department over publications about the president.
Radio and television group shut down for payment default
The security forces intervention, in which broadcast equipment was forcibly seized, was ordered by the courts over failure to pay royalties.
Appeal court exonerates journalist in 2004 criminal defamation case
An appeal court in Dakar has exonerated Madiambal Diagne, managing editor of the privately-owned newspaper “Le Quotidien”, in a 2004 criminal defamation case.
Gendarmerie interrogates two journalists
Two journalists, Pape Samba Sène and and Abdou Dia, were interrogated in Kaffrine over allegations of “defamation” and “disseminating false news”.
Two journalists sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, publisher exonerated
A magistrate’s court sentenced two journalists from the “Week-End”magazine to three months’ imprisonment for defaming a national assembly speaker.
Court seizes magazine, suspends distribution
A court suspended distribution of the June 2009 edition of “L’Essentiel” and ordered its seizure over headlines that the court claimed were an “insult” to the president.
Journalist El Malick Seck pardoned
(MFWA/IFEX) – El Malick Seck, managing editor of the “24 Heures Chrono” newspaper, who was sentenced to a three-year prison term for publishing false news, was on 24 April 2009 freed by President Abdoulaye Wade. Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) correspondent reported that Seck was released following a presidential pardon signed the same day. […]