Dakar, Senegal, 12/28 - The Tribunal of Dakar on Tuesday sentenced the editorial director of the daily, L`Observateur, Alioune Ndiaye, a journalist of the same organ, Jean-Pierre Man`, and the editorial director of Le Courrier du jour, Pape Amadou Gaye, to three months of imprisonment with a suspended sentence.
They were convicted of defaming Karim Wade, chairman of the National Agency for organising the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Dakar.
The journalists of L`Observateur were to pay a fine 100,000 FCFA to the plaintiff and 40 million FCFA of damages, while their colleague from `Le Courrier du Jour` was fined 20 million FCFA.
Both papers had published articles involving rumours, according to which, Karim Wade, who is son of Senegalese President Wade, had been arrested in Paris for foreign exchange trafficking.
