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From ESSIE KOMBATE in Lome, TogoTogo CorrespondentLOME, (CAJ News) - AHEAD of the elections in Togo, a French journalist has been arrested and deported. The country’s media regulatory body has suspended accreditation for foreign journalists covering the election. Generally, there are increasing threats to the media in the West African country towards the parliamentary and
Amnesty International has called for urgent action in West and Central African nations to combat corruption.
The Togolese journalists Ferdinand Ayite and Isidore Kouwonou, respectively Director of Publication and Editor-in-Chief of the Togolese investigative newspaper L'ALTERNATIVE will be tried again on Thursday, May 11, 2023 at the Lomé Court of Appeal, we learn.
Amnesty International expressed this Friday its disagreement with the Togolese authorities following the sentencing of two journalists, Ferdinand Ayite and Isidore Kouwonou, to three years in prison with fines.
Two journalists in Togo who are currently in hiding have been sentenced to three years in prison for insulting public authorities, their lawyer said. The small West African state, ruled since 2005 by President Faure Gnassingbe, is often accused by rights groups of cracking down on opposition figures and the media. Ferdinand Ayite and Kokou…