The rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly were restricted. The police used excessive force, notably while enforcing COVID-19 restrictions. Health workers protested against the lack of PPE and poor conditions, while prisoners were at risk of COVID-19. Violence against women persisted.

Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020 and are now under judicial supervision. At the end of November 2020, they were arrested and charged for ‘criminal conspiracy’ and ‘undermining the internal security of the state’...

Political activists, Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou – both members of the Dynamique Monseigneur Kpodrzo (DMK), a group of opposition parties and civil society organizations in Togo- were arrested respectively on 28 and 27 November after the DMK called for a demonstration to...

Salomée T. Abalodo, farmer and community leader, has been released after the Tribunal of Pagouda (Kara, northern region of Togo) dropped all charges against her.

Salomée T. Abalodo, a farmer and community leader, has been charged with ‘rebellion’ and ‘participation in an unauthorised protest’. She was arrested in the district of Pagouda (Kara, northern region of Togo) on 13 April after taking pictures of wounded protestors and asking the local authorities...

Two prisoners of conscience and two other men have been released on bail in Dapaong, Northern Togo. Five other men who had been detained with them in relation to protests held in Mango in November 2015 and April 2016 remain at the Prison of Dapaong.

Two prisoners of conscience remain in arbitrary detention in Dapaong, Northern Togo. The Appeal Court of Kara on 6 June rejected their request to be released on bail. Seven other men remain in detention in relation to the protests held in Mango in November 2015 and April 2016.

Two men are arbitrarily detained in Dapaong, northern Togo, after they questioned the commemoration of the country’s Independence Day and called for justice for people who were killed during protests in Mango in November 2015. The two are prisoners of conscience. Seven other men are in detention in...

Togolese students arrested on 28 March and 3 April, following demonstrations at the University of Kara, have been released.

Three students were arrested on 28 March 2012 during a demonstration at Togo’s University of Kara. They are detained at the Central Prison in Kara and are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Two other students have received threats and are at serious risk of arrest.

Four political activists, arrested in March this year ahead of the Togolese presidential election, have been released. They were not ill-treated during the six months they spent in custody.

Twelve of the political activists arrested around the Togolese presidential election have been released on bail: they were not ill-treated during the month they spent in custody. A least four are still detained in the northern prison of Kara.

More than a dozen political activists arrested around the time of the Togolese presidential election, which saw Faure Gnassingbé reelected, are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment in prison. Two of them are in urgent need of medical attention, which they are not receiving.