(FILES) Malian activist Ras Bath takes part in a demonstration to call for transparency in the upcoming presidential elections in Mali, on June 8, 2018 in Bamako. A Malian court sentenced on Monday a prominent journalist and an influencer, who had both criticised the ruling junta, to seven years in jail, an AFP journalist saw. Television and radio commentator Mohamed Youssouf Bathily -- alias Ras Bath -- was convicted by the court in Bamako of criminal conspiracy and discrediting the state, alongside Rokia Doumbia, a noted campaigner known online as "Rose, the cost of living". (Photo by Michele CATTANI / AFP via Getty Images)