In spite of the Senegalese gendarmerie officer holding a gun held to his head, Ibou Sané held firm. He refused the officer’s order to admit that he knew René Capain Bassène – but in the end it didn’t matter. Testimony he insisted he never gave was used in court to help convict Bassène, a well-known … Continue reading CPJ finds flaws, inconsistencies in murder conviction of Senegalese journalist René Capain Bassène