Djibouti: Further information on unfair trial / prisoners of conscience

Index AI : AFR 23/009/1999
Date de publication : 25 octobre 1999
Catégorie(s) : Afrique, Djibouti

On 20 October 1999 a court of appeal upheld the convictions of Ali Meidal Wais and Daher Ahmed Farah for ‘spreading false news' and sentenced both men to six months' imprisonment. A third journalist, Moussa Ahmed Idriss, remains in prison having been found guilty of violently resisting arrest after an unfair trial on 6 October