BAMAKO (Reuters) - Private media in Mali have launched a news blackout until authorities free the editor of a newspaper detained last week after publishing an open letter criticising the leader of last year's military coup in the West African state.
Most private media have observed the strike, which began on Tuesday, to protest the detention of the editor of Le Republicain, Boukary Daou, on March 6. He has yet to be officially charged with any crime.
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