Senegal - Newspaper editor gets six months in prison for defaming president's chief of staff

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed by the six-month jail sentence which a Dakar court has imposed on Abdourahmane Diallo, the editor of the Express News daily, for defaming President Abdoulaye Wade's chief of staff, Pape Samba Mboup. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Diallo, who was tried in absentia, but he has not yet been detained. “There are two distinct aspects to this matter,” Reporters Without Borders said. “One is whether the newspaper was in the wrong. The other (...)

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