BAMAKO (Reuters) - A Malian newspaper editor who published an open letter criticising the leader of last year's military coup has been charged with incitement to revolt, the head of Mali's written press association said.
Boukary Daou was detained on March 6 after the letter in his Le Republicain newspaper targeted Captain Amadou Sanogo, whose coup ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure and left a power vacuum allowing Islamist rebels to seize the northern two-thirds of Mali.
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