Mali: Court Orders Four-Month Suspended Sentences for Two Editors

press release

Toronto — On 5 March 2007, the Bamako Commune II County Court sentenced managing editor Diaby Makoro Camara, and editor-in-chief Oumar Bouaré, of "Kabako", a privately-owned, monthly newspaper, to a four-month suspended sentence for defaming Mariamantia Diarra, Minister of Planning and the Interior.

Camara and Bouaré were ordered to pay an amount of 50,000 FCFA (approx. US$99) in damages.

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