In the early hours of April 13, police raided newsstands in Lomé and seized that week’s edition of L’Exilé, according to CPJ’s sources in Togo. The raid was apparently prompted by an article titled “Rumors or Reality: One of President’s Daughters is Dead.†Quoting unnamed sources, the article incorrectly reported that Your Excellency’s daughter, Liling Gnassingbé, had been killed in a car accident earlier that week. The next day, April 14, Your Excellency summoned Agboh to your Lomé residence, where secret service agents questioned him for several hours. Agboh was arrested after his interrogation, and held at a local police station. On April 15, he appeared before a judge at Lomé’s Correctional Tribunal. He was later charged with defaming Your Excellency’s daughter by disseminating false news. L’Exilé, meanwhile, has been unable to publish since mid-April due to severe police harassment, according to journalists in Togo.
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