Mali’s Junta Renews Assault on Political Opposition

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The leader of Mali's junta, Col. Assimi Goïta, center, in Bamako, Mali, September 22, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo Mali’s military junta arrested 11 opposition figures last week in the authorities’ latest assault on the political opposition.On June 20, gendarmes surrounded a private home in Bamako, Mali’s capital, and arrested members of the country’s main opposition coalition, known as March 31 Declaration’s Opposition Platform (Plateforme d'opposition de la Déclaration du 31 mars).One of those arrested, Mohamed Ali Bathily, a lawyer and former minister, was released…

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