Pape Malick Thiam
(asked on 12th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will raise the case of journalist Pape Malick Thiam with her Senegalese counterpart.
This question was answered on 20th May 2022
The UK is a longstanding champion of media freedom globally. We co-founded the Media Freedom Coalition, and continue to work with it, and partners, to address the deterioration in global media freedom.
Our Embassy in Dakar continues to monitor the case of the journalist Pape Malick Thiam. Last year, we funded work to improve the capacity of journalists to report freely in Senegal.