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MYSTERIOUS: Senegal restricts internet as opposition leader formally charged | Mind Blowing Facts

Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was charged with plotting an insurrection, criminal conspiracy and other offences [Cooper Inveen/Reuters]

Senegal has restricted access to internet services from Monday due to the spread of “hateful messages” on social media, the country’s communications minister said in a statement, as opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is formally charged with fomenting an insurrection.

“Due to the dissemination of hateful and subversive messages on social networks … mobile data internet is being temporarily suspended during certain hours from Monday July 31”, Communications Minister Moussa Bocar Thiam said in a statement.

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