Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson and Gérard Djossou are still being held on Monday, November 30, in the intelligence service. Investigations continue to determine the circumstances under which the destabilization project they are accused of were prepared and their authors. During this time, condemning reactions to these arrests are multiplied.
as reported from Lomé, Peter Sassou Dogbé
Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson is fine, a little tired but determined, indicates a relative, during which the interrogations continue and must end on Monday in Gerard Yaovi Djossou. The latter, a member of the dynamics Bishop Kpodzro, was arrested in the center of Lomé on the evening of Friday 27 November. A few hours later, Saturday, Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson was in turn.
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According to Me Darius Atsoo, lawyers for the two people, this case is not based on any serious fact and law. He urges the prosecutor in a press release to guarantee an independent and impartial investigation.
The case causes a stir in all directions. Personalities, political parties and civil society are moving over it. François Boko, the former interior minister in exile, calls for the immediate release of Brigitte Adjamagbo-Johnson, “a politician who has fought peacefully for decades for human rights in Togo” and of all political prisoners. The Democratic Convention on African Peoples, of which she is the Secretary-General, condemns the harassment of an actress who is too embarrassed in her dismissals and who wants to be silenced at all costs.
I demand the immediate release of Madame Brigitte Adjamagbo, an influential politician who has fought peacefully for decades for human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Togo and Africa.
– François Boko (official) (@ FrancoisBoko1) November 28, 2020
The Democratic Alliance for Integrated Development calls on the government to guarantee the physical integrity of the two politicians. The dynamic bishop Kpodzro sees in it a maneuver that has no other goal than to raise the protest movement. The October 5 movement demands the immediate release of what it considers to be a direct political prisoner.
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