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Senegal court jails three TikTok influencers for insulting the president
The three men worked for online communications channel Feenal Digital, which produces content that some say favours Senegal's ousted Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, the head of the PASTEF party.
A Senegalese court sentenced three TikTok influencers to serve prison time and pay a fine for insulting the president, their lawyer said in a video posted on Facebook, a move that critics said was an assault on free speech in the West African country.
Mandoumbe Diop, known as Lamignou Darou, was sentenced to three months in prison without suspension.
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