Recently, there have been serious terrorist attacks in Mali, including one at a gendarmerie school in the capital and another at Bamako Airport. In response to these incidents, prosecutors from the Alliance of Sahel States—made up of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso—have launched an investigation against Wassim Nasr, a journalist from the French TV channel France 24. They accuse him of making comments that support terrorists.

The accusations come from his reports on the recent jihadist atta...