Another Journalist in Mali Sentenced to Prison

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What the source reports

A national cybercrime court in Mali on September 14 sentenced a prominent journalist, Abdramane Keïta, to two years in prison on bogus charges, in the military government’s latest attack on media freedom. Click to expand Image Abdramane Keïta, director of the newspaper Le Témoin (The Witness), Bamako, Mali.

© Private Security forces arrested Keïta, director of the newspaper Le Témoin (The Witness), on June 9 in Bamako, Mali’s capital, days after he commented on a television program that the Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and…

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Source & verification

Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · September 21, 2026

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