📰 Media & Journalism Jun 16, 2026 · CPJ Staff

In Mali, 2 more journalists arrested under cybercrime law for criticizing authorities

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Dakar, June 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to release two prominent journalists imprisoned last week for criticizing the country’s embattled military government over its press freedom record and losses to insurgents.



“Malian authorities must stop their frenzied arrests of journalists, drop the charges against Abdrahamane Keïta and Chahana Takiou, and release them, as well as fellow journalist Youssouf Sissoko,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Afr

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