The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the court in Mali's capital city of Bamako to immediately release from jail and drop charges against four editors, a journalist and a teacher for "offence against the head of state" after the publication of an article about a school assignment on a sex scandal involving a fictional president.
The journalist and the teacher have been detained since last Thursday, 14 June. The four editors were arrested yesterday after they republished the article in question. According to sources, the editors are accused of "complicity of offence against the head of state."
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