Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release on Friday of all of the four journalists imprisoned in Senegal - Moussa Guèye, the editor of the privately-owned daily L’Exclusif, Pape Moussa Doukar, one of his employees, Pape Moussa Gaye, the editor of the privately-owned daily Le Courrier du Jour, and El Malick Seck, the editor of the news website “_blank” Rewmi.com .

The interior ministry said they were freed with the aim of “defusing relations between the press and the government.”