Togo - Appeal court urged to lift distribution ban on regional news magazine

Reporters without borders

A Lomé court will begin tomorrow to hear an appeal by the Benin-based regional bimonthly Tribune d'Afrique against a 25 August ruling under which it was permanently banned from being distributed in Togo and was ordered to pay a fine of 6 millions CFA francs (9,000 euros) and damages of 60 millions CFA francs (90,000 euros) for linking Mey Gnassingbé, the president's brother and member of the president's office, to drug-trafficking. Reporters Without Borders and Avocats Sans Frontières, which (...)

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