WPF is appalled by the violent assault against well-known television host Maimouna Ndour Faye.

WPF categorically denounces the recent police violence against journalists while they were trying to cover demonstrations instigated by electoral postponements.

Gendarmerie detain and harass journalists Sokhna Ndack Mbacké and Khadija Ndate Diouf. Both journalists, representing independent media outlets, were targeted while covering protests.

Senegalese authorities escalate crackdown of dissenting voices with the arrest and detention of Kéwoulo journalist Maty Sarr Niang.

Journalist Maty Fall, who is originally from Senegal, was sent death threats online while she was covering the event in her home country. The sheer volume of violence threats and abuses that she received caught the attention of local journalist unions and other civil society groups who have extended her support and condemned the campaign against her. Maty has since filed a complaint with the police.