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About Claude Améganvi
- Claude Henri Améganvi (born 12 August 1953, Lomé) is a Togolese Trotskyist and former political prisoner.
- An architect by training, in 1977 he joined the exile student movement in France in opposition to the one-party dictatorship of Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
- He helped found the Organisation of Togolese Workers for Democracy (OTTD) in 1988.
- He returned to Togo in 1991 during a period of political liberalisation and was a delegate to the National Conference and subsequently the High Council of the Republic (the transitional parliament).
- In December 1991 he went into exile again, this time in Benin, until 1997.
- At the foundation of the Workers' Party (PT) in 1998, Améganvi was selected national coordinator.
- He remained a strong critic of the regimes of Eyadéma and his son Faure Gnassingbé.
- In September 2002, he was sentenced to four months in prison for defamation; he allegedly provided a Togolese newspaper the unsubstantiated claim that Forbes magazine had named President Eyadéma one of the world's wealthiest people.
- The sentence was increased to six months, and Améganvi was released in February 2003.
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