Nigeria, June 17 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to release two prominent journalists imprisoned last week for criticising the country's embattled military government over its press freedom record and losses to insurgents.

"Malian authorities must stop their frenzied arrests of journalists, drop the charges against Abdrahamane Keita and Chahana Takiou, and release them, as well as fellow journalist Youssouf Sissoko," said Moussa Ngom, CPJ's Francophone Africa representative. "It is ironic that Malian authorities used the cybercrime law to arrest Chahana Takiou for speaking out about its misuse against the press. They have only proven that his comments were 100 per cent accurate."

The cybercrime unit w...