AMNESTY International demanded on Saturday the release of its Togo bureau staffer Antoine Koffi Nadjombe, arrested in Lome on Friday. The international human rights group also demanded the release of Nadjombe’s wife and two members of the Togolese League for the Defence and Promotion of Human Rights, Nestor Tengue and Francois Gayibor. Amnesty said it considered Nadjimbe and his wife prisoners of conscience, whose arrest violated international human rights standards which Togo had ratified. The Togolese authorities accuse Nadjombe of collaborating in a report by Amnesty claiming that hundreds of people were killed by the security forces and their bodies dumped in the sea following last June’s controversial presidential elections. The Togolese government has denied the report and announced its intention to sue Amnesty International.