Senegal: Senegal Rebel Leader Rejects Prosecution Claims Against Journalist René Capain Bassène

[CPJ] A key Senegalese rebel leader, César Atoute Badiate, has broken his silence on jailed journalist René Capain Bassène, refuting the prosecution's claim that Bassène was a militant fighting for independence of the Casamance region who incited him to murder 14 illegal loggers in 2018. Source