Newspaper editors fined, newspaper ordered to pay damages to politician
(MFWA/IFEX) – “L’Inter de Bamako”, a weekly independent newspaper, was ordered on 26 April 2006 by a local magistrate court to pay damages of 300,000 CFA Francs (approx. US$580) to Diacounda Traore, chairman of the opposition Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (Alliance pour la Démocratie en Mali-Parti Pan-Africain pour la […]
Radio journalist abducted, beaten and left for dead
(WAJA/IFEX) – The following is a WAJA press release: Dakar, 5 July 2005 Malian journalist attacked Dakar – The Mali Journalists’ Union (UNAJOM) has reported that Hamidou Diarra, alias “Dragon”, a journalist with Bamako’s Radio Kélédou, was abducted by a group of unidentified persons while leaving his radio station on Tuesday 5 July 2005, at […]
CPJ concerned about jailing of three journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ letter to President Amadou Toumani Toure: November 5, 2003 His Excellency Amadou Toumani Toure President of the Republic of Mali Présidence Koulouba, Bamako Mali By facsimile: 011-223-223-0043 Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is disturbed by the continued imprisonment of three journalists working for privately owned […]
Public television director sentenced to one month in prison for defamation
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the president of the Superior Council of the Magistracy, Alpha Oumar Konaré, RSF protested the sentencing of Sidiki Konaté, director-general of the Malian Radio-television Bureau (Office de radio-télévision du Mali, ORTM), to one month in prison for defamation. The organisation recalled that in a document published in January 2000, […]
Ruling party MP assaults journalist
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Aly Nouhoum Diallo, president of the National Assembly, RSF expressed its concern about the assault on Chahana Takiou, a journalist with the private biweekly “L’Indépendant”, by a ruling party member of parliament (MP). RSF asked the National Assembly president to “make a public statement calling for the punishment of […]
Journalist attacked
(RSF/IFEX) – According to information released by RSF on 14 May 1998, during the night of 5 or 6 May, Cheick Oumar Konare, a journalist and director of publishing with the private daily “Sud-Info”, was attacked by unknown assailants. While walking in Bamako (the capital city), the journalist was kidnapped by ten men who forced […]
“Nouvel Horizon” journalist Mamadou Dabo arrested
On the morning of 6 June 1995, Mamadou Dabo, a journalist with the daily “Nouvel Horizon”, was arrested in Bamako, Mali. He was arrested at 10:00 am by two agents of the Mali secret service who took him away in a police car. He was interrogated for two hours by the assistant director of State […]