Africa: Ivory Coast – IFJ Demands Immediate Release of Exiled Journalist Extradited to Benin

Journalist Hugues Comlan Sossoukpe, who has refugee status and is a vocal critic of the Beninese government, has been in exile in Togo since 2019. According to local media reports, he was invited by the Ivorian Ministry of Digital Transition and Digitalisation to attend a forum on new technologies in Abidjan,Ivory Coast, from 9 to 11 July.

The journalist travelled from Togo to Ivory Coast to attend the conference, but was detained on 10 July in his hotel room by police officers, who deported the…