Posts Tagged ‘Mali’

Reporters Without Borders is relieved by the 30 April announcement that all charges have been dropped against Boukary Daou, editor of the privately-owned newspaper Le Républicain. He was arrested on 6 March after publishing an army officer's open letter and was later freed on 2 April. The media freedom organization nonetheless still deplores that fact that this journalist was detained arbitrarily for a month. 03.04.2013 ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders hails Le Républicain editor Boukary Daou's release yesterday after a month in detention, the final weeks of which he spent sharing a cell with 50 other detainees in Bamako's main prison. “An ordeal has ended for this journalist,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We are relieved to learn that he is out of prison and will not be detained during his trial, which ... Full story

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 ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is astounded by the warnings that France's Higher Council for Broadcasting (CSA) has given to the state-owned national TV broadcaster, France Télévisions, over a report on France 2's “Envoyé Spécial” programme about the situation in Mali. The warnings have set a disturbing precedent for the entire media profession. Entitled “Atrocities in Mali?” and labelled as “not for viewers under the age of ... Full story

The United States warmly congratulated France today on the success of its “Operation Serval” in Mali but Reporters Without Borders regrets that France has had similar success with its goal of heavily restricting direct media coverage of the military intervention. “The French authorities, supported by their Malian counterparts, have achieved their ‘zero image of the war front' media objective for Operation Serval by strictly controlling ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of several foreign journalists for several hours on 8 February in Bamako. The arrests, during which one was physically attacked, occurred when “Green Berets,” who carried out last March's coup d'état, attacked the barracks of former President Amadou Toumani Touré's “Red Beret” bodyguards. “Assaulting and arresting journalists and confiscating their equipment constitute an unacceptable violation of freedom of information,” ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Malian and French authorities to allow journalists to freely cover the military operations under way in Mali since 11 January. Both foreign and local journalists have been kept more than 100 km from the fighting ever since the start of the military intervention. “In war time, it is up to journalists and their news organizations, not the military, to ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the beating that radio presenter Abdoul Malick Ali Maïga received from jihadists in the northern city of Gao on 5 August after commenting on the fact that protesting residents had prevented them from amputating an accused thief's hand that morning. Maïga had just made his comment and was still presenting the evening news programme on radio Adar Koima (Joy of ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders voices its support for the one-day strike planned by Mali's media for tomorrow, when radio stations will suspend broadcasting and no newspapers will be printed. In a show of solidarity, the organization issues a call for an end to the constant media freedom violations of the past four months. Journalists and other protesters will set off at 9 a.m. from the headquarters ... Full story

Gunmen abducted Saouti Haïdara, the editor of the privately-owned daily L'Indépendant, from the newspaper's headquarters in Bamako yesterday evening, gave him a severe beating and then dumped him in a northern district of the city, where he was found by colleagues. “As kidnapping and assaulting journalists is becoming common practice in Bamako, we call on the authorities to identify those responsible for this attack and ... Full story