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Mali: justice releases economist Sissoko, detained since January

2022-06-10T19:07:30.838Z


The Malian economist Étienne Fakaba Sissoko, imprisoned in January for political reasons according to his lawyer, was released on Friday June 10,...


The Malian economist Étienne Fakaba Sissoko, imprisoned in January for political reasons according to his lawyer, was released on Friday June 10, AFP learned from the prosecution and his entourage.

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He was placed under judicial control, told AFP on condition of anonymity a prosecutor and a member of his entourage.

Étienne Fakaba Sissoko had been placed under a warrant of committal on January 18 for having made "

remarks tending to stigmatization or regionalist, ethnic or religious discrimination

", according to justice, after he had criticized the holding of public events in Christmas time, detrimental according to him to the Christians of this country.

The prosecution mentioned another head of prosecution, "

presumption of forgery and use of false university diplomas

", without saying what had happened to the first incriminations.

But according to his lawyer Me Ibrahim Marouf Sakho, this professor of economics and researcher in a private organization in Bamako was above all worried for having spoken publicly on the impact of the sanctions imposed on January 9 in Mali by its West African neighbors. .

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) inflicted strong commercial and financial retaliation measures on Mali to sanction the project of the junta, which then intended to lead the country for up to five more years.

The colonels who took power in 2020 have since reduced their claims to two years.

The question of these sanctions is very sensitive in Mali.

ECOWAS must decide at a summit on July 3 whether to lift them or not.

Source: lefigaro

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