The Togolese authorities must immediately conduct an investigation into the serious violence that took place on 29 September during a conference organized by the opposition political party Convention Démocratique des Peuples Africains (African Peoples’ Democratic Convention – CDPA), Amnesty International said today.
During the event in Lomé, several people, including MPs and journalists, were injured and had to receive medical treatment after a group of people started throwing objects at the audience and at the podium. Guy Marius Sagna, a Senegalese member of the ECOWAS parliament, was evacuated from the room with concussion. According to witnesses, members of security forces present close to the event failed to intervene.
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