Mali: Journalist in Mali Sentenced to a Year in Prison

Quash Charges and Release Chahana Takiou A prominent Malian journalist was convicted under Mali's cybercrime legislation for criticizing the use of that same law to silence another journalist. The verdict marks the latest escalation in the military junta's widening assault on freedom of expression in the country. On August 3, the national cybercrime court in Bamako, Mali's capital, sentenced Chahana Takiou, editor of the biweekly 22 Septembre, to one year in prison. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Security forces arrested Takiou on June 8 after he publicly criticized the authorities for prosecuting a fellow journalist, Youssouf Sissoko, under the cybercrime law rather than Mali's press laws. Sissoko was sentenced to two years in prison in June after he published a