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The authorities are holding two Togolese opposition leaders after their arrest over the weekend.
Brigitte Adjamagbo-Johnson, who in 2010 was the first woman in the country to run for president, was arrested on Saturday shortly after visiting a fellow opposition who had been previously arrested.
Gerard Djossou, head of human rights for the Dynamique Monseigneur Kpodzro (DMK) party, had been arrested on Friday.
The prosecutor says that an investigation has been opened against him for “attacking the internal security of the state.”
The party has condemned the arrests as a “maneuver whose objective is nothing less than to behead the movement,” reports the AFP agency.
The opposition has been stepping up its campaign against President Faure Gnassingbé, who they say stole the February elections.
He had called a rally in the capital Lomé on Saturday to protest against the election results, but it was canceled by the government citing the risk of the coronavirus spreading.
Gnassingbé has led Togo’s population of eight million people after replacing his father Gnassingbé Eyadema, who ruled for 38 years, in 2005.
