Index on Censorship » President Abdoulaye Wade http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » President Abdoulaye Wade http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Senegal: Journalists threatened, assaulted amid election http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/03/senegal-journalists-threatened-assaulted-amid-election/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/03/senegal-journalists-threatened-assaulted-amid-election/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:55:36 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=33605 A number of attacks and threats have been made against journalists covering the Sengalese presidential elections. At least 12 incidents of threats and physical harm have been recorded against journalists in the lead up to and aftermath of the vote. Senegal’s incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade stood against thirteen other candidates in elections for a third term in power on [...]

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]]> attacks and threats have been made against journalists covering the Sengalese presidential elections. At least 12 incidents of threats and physical harm have been recorded against journalists in the lead up to and aftermath of the vote. Senegal’s incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade stood against thirteen other candidates in elections for a third term in power on Sunday. No official results have been released.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/03/senegal-journalists-threatened-assaulted-amid-election/feed/ 0 Senegal: Opposition activist charged for libelling President http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/senegal-opposition-activist-charged-for-libelling-president/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/senegal-opposition-activist-charged-for-libelling-president/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:24:03 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=28169 An opposition activist is facing five years in prison for libelling President Abdoulaye Wade in Senegal. Malick Noel Seck, General Secretary for the Socialist Convergence Youth, a movement of the Senegalese Socialists Party, is facing three counts of libelling the head of state, contempt of court and issuing death threats, following his appearance in court last week. The [...]

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]]> opposition activist is facing five years in prison for libelling President Abdoulaye Wade in Senegal. Malick Noel Seck, General Secretary for the Socialist Convergence Youth, a movement of the Senegalese Socialists Party, is facing three counts of libelling the head of state, contempt of court and issuing death threats, following his appearance in court last week. The prosecutor is said to have demanded a five-year prison term for Seck. The charges follow Seck’s petition in April to Senegal’s constitutional court not to accept the candidacy of President Wade for the 2012 elections.

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