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Mali drops coup charges against ex-prime minister, radio host

Mali s Supreme Court on Monday confirmed that the charges against several personalities, including a former prime minister and a star radio host, accused since December of preparing a coup d état with mysterious outlines, had been dropped. The court has deliberated. It has rejected the appeal of the public prosecutor lodged against a decision to drop the proceedings taken in March by the Bamako Court of Appeal, Cheick Oumar Konaré, the lawyer for two of the defendants, told AFP. The five detained personalities, including the activist and radio host Mohamed Youssouf Bathily known as Ras Bath , were released on Monday afternoon after nearly four months in detention, an AFP correspondent noted at the Central Prison in Bamako.

OHCHR | Mali: Charges against journalist and co-defendants still detained after court freed them must be dropped, say UN experts

GENEVA (8 April 2021) – UN human rights experts said today they are alarmed by the continued detention of a journalist and four senior officials and urged authorities to immediately drop the charges against them in line with an order last month by the Bamako Court of Appeal which had dismissed the case for lack of evidence and ordered the release of the five men. The Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Mali, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers said the arrests in December 2020 of journalist Mohamed Bathily, known as Ras Bath, as well as Vital Robert Diop, Souleymane Kansaye, Mahamadou Koné, and Aguibou Macky Tall   all working for public and parapublic institutions were made without any judicial authority and outside of any legal framework.

Mali: Due Process Concerns in Conspiracy Case

Lack of Evidence, Prolonged Pretrial Detention The Administrative Park in Mali’s capital, Bamako, in which the Ministry of Justice is located, January 2017. © 2017 Image Professionals GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo (Bamako) – Mali’s justice officials should scrupulously respect due process rights in the case of five men detained since December 2020 for allegedly plotting a coup against the Malian transitional government, Human Rights Watch said today.   On March 2, 2021, the Bamako Court of Appeals, in response to a defense request, dismissed the case for lack of evidence and ordered the immediate release of the five men. Mali’s attorney general immediately appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which in mid-April will consider the Court of Appeals decision.

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