Newspaper journalists arrested over coverage of military matters

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Senegalese authorities to drop the charges of “violating defence secrecy” that have been brought Alioune Badara Fall, the publisher of the newspaper L'Observateur, and one of his reporters, Mamadou Seck. Fall and Seck were charged after being summoned to the headquarters of the investigative section of the gendarmerie in Dakar on 15 July and questioned for several hours about a report that Senegalese troops were being sent to participate in the (...)

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