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After years of intimidation and persecution, which include administrative sanctions, judicial proceedings and surveillance, Togolese journalist Ferdinand Ayité is imprisoned.
Attempts have often been made to intimidate Ayité during his 20 or so years as a journalist but this is the first time he has found himself in a cell. Arrested in Lomé, Togo’s capital, on 9 December, he was immediately jailed on a charge of “insulting authority” and “defamation.” Joël Egah, the editor of the Lomé-based newspaper Fraternité, was jailed on the same charges the