Augustin Assiobo This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Togo - Diastode - Human rights

   www.diastode.org/Droits/us1998 - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/26/1999   Last Visited: 10/20/2001

   On August 6 and 7 , the Government arrested and detained journalists of three private newspapers based in Lome : Pamphile Gnimassou , editor of Abito , Augustin Assiobo , editor of Tingo Tingo , and Hounkanly Elias , reporter for Nouveau Combat. The three were accused of slandering the President and his wife by publishing reports alleging that the widow of the late President Mobutu of then-Zaire had asked the Togolese first lady , Badagnaki Eyadema , to return trunks of jewelry that disappeared in Lome while Mobutu was on his way into exile after being overthrown in 1997.
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   Assiobo was detained for 2 days and Gnimassou for 6 days. Hounkanly was detained for 18 days by the Gendarmerie before being transferred to the main prison on August 25 to await trial. Hounkanly remained in custody at year's end.
   
   On August 14 , Messan Lucien Djossou , publisher of Le Combat du Peuple , was arrested and detained for several hours. Djossou was arrested again on September 1 and kept for 48 hours at police headquarters. The authorities did not have an arrest warrant and did not file charges.