Togo journalist jailed over report ahead of elections

Mewenemesse, 71, "went to prison this evening", said his lawyer, Me Darius Kokou Atsoo.

Apollinaire Mewenemesse, editor of the newspaper La Depeche, had been held by security forces since Tuesday in connection with an article published last month that questioned a general's conviction in the murder of a supporter of President Faure Gnassingbe.