Mali - Media suspend operations to press for editor's release

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders hails a decision by Mali's newspapers and radio stations to stop publishing and broadcasting from tomorrow until the authorities release Le Républicain editor Boukary Ndaou, who has been held by state security police for the past five days. Ndaou was arrested at his newspaper on 6 March after publishing an open letter to President Dioncounda Traoré from an army captain in the northern city of Gao who threatened to lead a mutiny if Traoré did not rescind the “benefits (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 11 mars 2013