Amewouho, a reporter with the privately owned weekly newspaper Le Nouveau Combat, was arrested and taken to the Lomé National Police Station. The following day, he was transferred to Lomé Prison. The arrest was in connection with the publication of two articles in the August 6-13 edition of the newspaper titled, “The Widow Mrs. Bobi Mobutu Demands Mrs. Badagnaki Eyadéma Return Her 17 Trunks of Jewelery Missing in Lomé,” and “Eyadéma Fishes For A Letter of Congratulations from Chirac.”