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Ghana rights group files lawsuit against government’s acceptance of US deportees
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My Mother LodeGhana rights group files lawsuit against government’s acceptance of US deportees
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A group of 14 people have become the latest West Africans deported from the U.S. to Ghana under an accord between the countries, said a lawyer whose group filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the…
Rights Group Challenges Ghana’s US Deportee Deal In Court
By Emmanuel Nduka Obisue A civil society organisation in Ghana has filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a controversial deportation deal between the Ghanaian government and the United States, citing constitutional breaches and alleged human rights violations. The suit, filed by the non-partisan group Democracy Hub, challenges the legality of an agreement under which Ghana agreed to receive deportees from the US as part of President Donald Trum…
The civil society group Democracy Hub has filed a lawsuit in Ghana's Supreme Court over the African country's government's collaboration with the administration of US President Donald Trump in deporting immigrants from the US. Since the beginning of September, the US has deported at least 42 people from various African and other countries to Ghana.
Democracy Hub claims that the agreement is unconstitutional because it was not approved by parliament, and that Ghana is violating international law by detaining deportees in inhumane conditions and sending them onward to countries where they may be in danger.
Democracy Hub takes gov't to court over alleged ‘secret’ deal with U.S. on deportees
Democracy Hub has filed a case at the Supreme Court of Ghana questioning the constitutionality of a purported Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ghanaian government and the United States regarding the reception and detention of involuntarily repatriated West African nationals. The group contends that the MoU, which permits the temporary detention of deportees from the U.S. in Ghana, breaches the 1992 Constitution and international hum…
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