For insulting the authorities and spreading false news, the former Togolese Minister of Communication, Djimon Oré, was sentenced this Tuesday, May 18 to 2 years in prison by the Togolese justice.

Arrested since the end of April 2021, Djimon Oré had been presented to the public prosecutor and the examining magistrate before being charged with attack on honor, attempts to aggravate disturbances of public order and insults towards the representatives of public authority.

His arrest followed remarks he had made in a program broadcast on a local private radio, while the country commemorated the 61st anniversary of its accession to international sovereignty. “The balance sheet in terms of bloodshed, in terms of Togolese compatriots murdered by France-Africa through the barbaric regime, the oligarchy regime far exceeds the number of those who fell in Rwanda and we are talking about Rwandan genocide. If we have to make a comparison, that's the record of Togo's independence from 1963 to the present day. More dead than the number of the Rwandan genocide,” he said. Remember that he has been arrested since April 29 and kept at the Central Criminal Investigation and Research Service (SCRIC).