(FILES) Malian activist Mohamed Youssouf Bathily also known as Ras Bath takes part in a press conference organised by opposition leaders at the Maison de la Presse (Press House) in Bamako on August 1, 2018. 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 ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP via Getty Images)