Reporters Without Borders is relieved by the 30 April announcement that all charges have been dropped against Boukary Daou, editor of the privately-owned newspaper Le Républicain. He was arrested on 6 March after publishing an army officer's open letter and was later freed on 2 April.
The media freedom organization nonetheless still deplores that fact that this journalist was detained arbitrarily for a month.
Charges dropped against Malian editor
Reporters Without Borders 7 May 2013
Case history
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Malian editor released conditionally after one month in prison
Reporters Without Borders
Mali
Free Expression & the Law 3 April 2013
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Malian editor faces charges after publishing critical letter
Reporters Without Borders
Mali 19 March 2013
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Media in Mali stage indefinite strike to call for editor's release
Committee to Protect Journalists
Mali 15 March 2013