Maimouna Ndour Faye - Babacar Fall : Reporters Sans Frontières dénonce des "mesures inquiétantes"
Less than 48 hours after the opening of the International Media Fair of Africa in Dakar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces methods deemed "manifestly disproportionate" against information professionals.
Two media figures working for major outlets were targeted within 12 hours of giving airtime to Madiambal Diagne, a businessman and media owner critical of the government, who is currently the subject of an international arrest warrant and is in France. Maïmouna Ndour Faye, director general of the private television channel 7TV, was arrested on October 28 by the gendarmerie. Her arrest occurred during the broadcast of an interview with Madiambal Diagne. She is being held in custody for “undermining state security and undermining the authority of the judiciary.”
Babacar Fall, editor-in-chief of Radio Futurs Médias (RFM), was handcuffed and taken to the police station on October 29 after the broadcast of an interview with the same personality.
Alongside these arrests, the signals of the private channel 7TV as well as that of Télé Futurs Médias (from the same group as RFM) were temporarily cut off on distribution packages, a measure that "the National Audiovisual Regulatory Council (CNRA), the only body authorized to take such a measure, has not publicly commented on".
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), through its director of the Sub-Saharan Africa office, Sadibou Marong, reacted strongly to these events. The organization deplores the use of force rather than legal regulatory mechanisms. "The detention of two journalists within their newsrooms and the temporary interruption of their media outlets' broadcasts, without intervention from the audiovisual regulator, for giving a platform to a person subject to an international arrest warrant are manifestly disproportionate and alarming measures," said Sadibou Marong.
RSF concluded its statement with a direct appeal: "RSF calls on the authorities to immediately release Maïmouna Ndour Faye and Babacar Fall and to use existing regulatory mechanisms in the event of a dispute with the media."
When contacted by RSF, a government source justified these arrests by invoking Article 5 of the Press Code, which imposes a reservation on the "secrecy of the investigation and the inquiry".
According to this source, as Madiambal Diagne's case is under investigation, "the actions of the journalists concerned who expressly want to give a voice to an individual subject to an international arrest warrant could discredit the judicial authorities," which could fall under criminal law.
Madiambal Diagne is the subject of an international arrest warrant in connection with an investigation into "alleged suspicious financial transactions" and had left Senegal despite a travel ban.
Commentaires (10)
Cet article du code de la presse ne prévoit d'ailleurs aucune sanction pénale
Le véritable problème c'est que les journalistes se croient tout permis.
Ce Babacar FAll ce que l'a fait est une défiance à l'Etat.
Reporter sans frontières est ce que vous acceptez qu'un journaliste tend le micro à un fugitif qui recherché par son pays et qui dit des choses qui peuvent porter atteinte à l'intégrité du Sénégal.
Ce fugitif de Madiambal sait qu'il ment lorsqu'il parle de contrat d'armements attribué à Ndeye Khady Niang. C'est des mensonges et Madiambal sait très bien qu'il ment.
Maimouna Ndour Faye ne respecte pas les sénégalais particulièrement les femmes: Cheikh Yerim seck est un habitué de sa Télé alors qu'il a été convaincu de viol. Dans d'autres pays, il raserait les murs. Elle n'est pas sérieuse. Ou est son soit disant agresseur????
Quant à Babacar FALL, la Haine contre SONKO va le tuer. Deysanne. Ce gars n'a même pas de coui-lles. Petite interpellation et il tombe en syncope.
L'ETAT doit être ferme envers les radio et Tele mille collines. TOLERANCE ZERO pour ces traitres. TOQUE MOUILLE DOKH, DIEKH NAFI.
Vous avez quelque chose a dire allez voir ce clown de trump. Plein de chose a dire sur Gaza hypocrisy is a decease
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