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Provisional release was granted on Tuesday evening January 10 to Pape Alé Niang. The journalist, boss of the Dakar Matin site and critic of power, was imprisoned again on December 20, after a first arrest on November 6. On hunger strike to protest imprisonment arbitrary “according to him, his state of health had become” very critical according to his supporters.
Pape Alé Niang « will probably have to stay in hospital for a few days to take stock before returning home “, affirms Maître Moussa Sarr, one of his lawyers, who says to himself ” very relieved “. The judge’s decision goes hand in hand with “ the immediate end of his hunger strike according to his defense.
As during her first provisional release on December 14, she is accompanied by judicial control: the obligation to go once a week to the police station or the gendarmerie, the ban on leaving the territory, or even on to express on the file: it is with this reason that the judge had sent him back to prison on December 20.
The imprisonment of Pape Alé Niang and his state of health provoked indignation in the profession and civil society. The CAP, Coordination of press associations, very mobilized, welcomed a “ victoire “, but for her, it’s not “ the end of the story “. She claims ” cancellation of charges “. The journalist is notably prosecuted for “ disclosure of military documents likely to harm national defense » et « spreading fake news ».
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