Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
15 May 2008
press release
A Dakar criminal court yesterday imposed suspended sentences of six months in prison on Souleymane Jules Diop, the publisher of the privately-owned daily L'Observateur, and Serigne Saliou Samb, his editor, for reporting on 10 January that disgruntled policemen had written an anonymous letter accusing then interior minister Ousmane Ngom of embezzlement.
The court also ordered them to pay 30 million CFA francs (45,700 euros) in damages. The two journalists have decided to appeal.
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