Mali: Journalist Detained for Eight Days Over Article

press release

Habi Baby - an editor of the weekly Caravane, was arrested by soldiers at his home in Bamako, the capital, on June 12, after he published a story critical of Mali's security forces, according to local journalists and news reports.

In the column, published in the monthly Aujourd'hui la résistance, Baby criticized the conditions of a jail where he had been detained for two weeks by the State Security, Mali's intelligence agency, on suspicion of being linked with separatist rebels controlling the northeastern self-declared independent territory of Azawad.

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