Pape Alé Niang has been taken to custody again. The judge of the second chamber notified him, at the end of his hearing, of his placement under a detention warrant. Recently released on bail, Pape Alé Niang the publication director of the Dakar Matin site was under judicial control.

The journalist was again arrested yesterday around 8 p.m. “Pape Alé Niang is a victim of article 127 of the Criminal Code Procedure. Following a duly substantiated indictment addressed to Judge Mamadou Seck, the Public Prosecutor, outraged by the journalist’s intervention on Mollah Morgun‘s livestream and the words deemed tendentious about the boss of the National Police Bocar Seydou Yague, requested the dismissal of judicial control measure. In application of the aforementioned text of the law, Mamadou Seck, after having immediately arrested the accused, will probably hand him over under a warrant of committal, » predicted one of his lawyers Me Khoureuchi Bâ.