Malian journalist Boukary Daou released on bail

By Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Malian journalist Boukary Daou released on bail
Malian journalist Boukary Daou released on bail

NEW YORK, April 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes today's decision by a judge in Mali to grant bail to a journalist who was jailed for 27 days in connection with his paper's publication of a letter critical of a military leader. CPJ calls on the public prosecutor to drop the charges against Boukary Daou, an editor of the daily Le Républicain.