Mali: Un Calls for Release of Activist El Bachir Thiam Abducted in May by State Security · Global Voices

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In Mali, the United Nations, through the voices of independent experts on human rights, is calling for the release of El Bachir Thiam. This young activist from Yelema, a party dissolved more than four months ago like all political organizations in Mali, was abducted by state security on 8 May. He has since been detained in an unknown place. Experts mandated by the UN also call for the release of all other victims of enforced disappearances or po…