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22 August 2017
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Journalist Ouleye Mané was detained, along with three others, after sharing a photoshopped image that showed a naked body resting on Senegalese President Macky Sall’s chest.
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Of particular concern to the media community is article 192 of Senegal's new press code, which states that a district chief executive and other authorities can suspend a media house if a publication is deemed to be a "threat to the national security."
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A publisher and a reporter were summoned to the gendarmerie in Dakar on 15 July and questioned for several hours about a report that Senegalese troops were being sent to participate in the Saudi-led military operations in Yemen.
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