{"id":2950,"date":"2021-12-26T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2021-12-26T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:27:00","slug":"togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers","title":{"rendered":"Togo: journalists sent to prison for criticizing two ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Togo. <\/strong><\/span>The directors of the newspapers L\u2019Alternative et Fraternit\u00e9, Ferdinand Ayit\u00e9 and Jo\u00ebl Egah, arrested since December 10, have been transferred to the civil prison in Lom\u00e9. The charges against them are \u201ccontempt of authority\u201d and \u201cspreading false words on social media\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past two weeks, my clients\u2019 situation has remained static, and it hasn\u2019t really changed. The two requests for provisional release that I made in this case were all rejected. So, we are awaiting a future, future and imminent trial, \u201dsaid their lawyer Mr. Elom Kpade.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he always remains confident that his clients will be released because the arguments and the means that they have always put forward since the beginning of the procedure are \u201carguments of rights\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer accused the authorities of not having dealt with the case as recommended by the press code, but in a recent intervention the public prosecutor indicated that the case would be treated as a press offense, only if the journalists had committed these \u201coffenses\u201d on their corresponding platforms, not on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NGOs , international organizations, human rights organisations and opposition political parties keep asking for the release of these journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Lib\u00e9rez les journalistes , chers juges et ministres-pasteurs v\u00e9reux.<\/p>\n<p>Fixez une caution, la diaspora va payer, et continuez \u00e0 piller notre bien commun sans partage.<\/p>\n<p>Respectez la constitution le droit dans ce pays. Vos centres n\u2019emporteront rien dans vos tombes.<\/p>\n<p>La politique de faire le mal \u00e0 autrui, \u00e7a suffit.<\/p>\n<p>Vous avez assez \u00e9liminer.<\/p>\n<p>Les djihadistes arrivent. Ils font de plus en plus de d\u00e9g\u00e2ts. Renseignez vous.<\/p>\n<p>Les riches vont avoir beaucoup de probl\u00e8mes car ils cherchent des fonds pour \u00e9tendre leurs actions partout dans le monde.<\/p>\n<p>Vos voies et m\u00e9thodes sont tr\u00e8s erron\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Vous entretenez bien vos ventres,mais ne b\u00e2tissez rien de viable pour l\u2019avenir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pour plus d&rsquo;informations et d&rsquo;analyses sur la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\">Togo<\/a>, suivez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Togo. The directors of the newspapers L\u2019Alternative et Fraternit\u00e9, Ferdinand Ayit\u00e9 and Jo\u00ebl Egah, arrested since December 10, have been transferred to the civil prison in Lom\u00e9. The charges against them are \u201ccontempt of authority\u201d and \u201cspreading false words on social media\u201d. \u201cFor the past two weeks, my clients\u2019 situation has remained static, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,10],"tags":[36,49,240,667,589,50],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-french","category-politique","category-toutes-les-actualites","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-togo","tag-ferdinand-ayite","tag-joel-egah","tag-news-togo","tag-togo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Togo: journalists sent to prison for criticizing two ministers - Togo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The directors of the newspapers L\u2019Alternative et Fraternit\u00e9, Ferdinand Ayit\u00e9 and Jo\u00ebl Egah, arrested since December 10, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Togo: journalists sent to prison for criticizing two ministers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The directors of the newspapers L\u2019Alternative et Fraternit\u00e9, Ferdinand Ayit\u00e9 and Jo\u00ebl Egah, arrested since December 10, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Togo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-26T15:09:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/togo\/sites\/58\/2021\/12\/img-61c87b689443e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditorfr\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\u00c9crit par\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditorfr\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditorfr\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/#\/schema\/person\/2b1cf3cd81a31e3cd26889ca66d677f1\"},\"headline\":\"Togo: journalists sent to prison for criticizing two ministers\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-26T15:09:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers\"},\"wordCount\":336,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/togo\/sites\/58\/2021\/12\/img-61c87b689443e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Togo\",\"Ferdinand Ayit\u00e9\",\"Joel Egah\",\"News Togo\",\"Togo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"homepage-french\",\"Politique\",\"Toutes les actualit\u00e9s\"],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/togo-journalists-sent-to-prison-for-criticizing-two-ministers\",\"name\":\"Togo: journalists sent to prison for criticizing two ministers - 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