Mali: three opponents held in prison after alleged confessions, their entourage denounces "a montage"

In Mali, three militants of the Mouvement pour la Paix au Mali (MPPM) and of the opposition party Sadi are denied provisional release, on account of confessions that they would never have made, call their relatives. The Bamako Court of Appeal issued a judgement to this effect on 18 February, which was not notified to the defence until Friday 11 April, two months later. Moulaye Baba Haidara, Mahamoud Mohamed Mangane and Amadou Togola have been de…