Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Mali Puts Free Speech on Trial

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Former Mali Prime Minister Moussa Mara in Bamako, on February 21, 2025. © 2025 Ousmane Makaveli/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Moussa Mara stood calmly before a court in Mali’s capital, Bamako, while the judges rejected his lawyers’ application for his release on bail. The prosecution instead sought a two-year prison sentence, an action encapsulating the military junta’s crackdown on political opposition and dissent.Security forces arrested Mara, prime minister for eight months between 2014 and 2015, on August 1, following…

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