Ghana

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF GHANA

Ghana: Imprisonment of journalists
12 November 1999

News Service 213/99. AI INDEX: AFR 28/01/99. 12 November 1999. Ghana: Imprisonment of journalists. Yesterday’s imprisonment of Ghanian ...

Press Release       AFR 28/001/1999

Ghana: Fear of refoulement
14 July 1997

Abdel Hakim Ben Amer Abubaker, a Libyan national; his wife and four children, Sudanese nationals: The above are currently being held at Accra Airport and there ...

Urgent Action       AFR 28/001/1997

Africa: In search of safety: the forcibly displaced and human ...
19 June 1997

One third of the world's refugees and more than half the internally displaced are in Africa. Widespread disregard for human rights has caused their forcible displacement ...

Report       AFR 01/005/1997

West Africa: Liberian refugees should be granted asylum
16 May 1996

AI Index: AFR 05/03/96 News Service: 90/96. 17 May 1996. LIBERIA: LIBERIAN REFUGEES SHOULD BE GRANTED ASYLUM. Thousands of refugees ...

Press Release       AFR 05/003/1996

West Africa: Further information on: Refugees from Liberia on ...
14 May 1996

The more than 3000 refugees from Liberia on board the Bulk Challenge have been allowed off the freighter in the Ghanaian port of Takoradi and their situation is ...

Urgent Action       AFR 05/002/1996

West Africa: Fear of refoulement: Refugees from Liberia on board ...
13 May 1996

Some 3500 refugees from the war in Liberia, who fled on the freighter Bulk Challenge, are in danger of being forcibly returned to Liberia where their lives may ...

Urgent Action       AFR 05/001/1996

Ghana: The first executions since 1990
25 October 1993

Twelve men were executed by firing squad in Ghana on 17 July 1993, in the first executions known to have taken place in Ghana since February 1990. They were: Godfrey ...

Report       AFR 28/001/1993

Amnesty International News Service 90/93
2 August 1993

1. Georgia: Alleged human rights violations during the conflict in Abkhazia. 2. Ghana: Text of letter from a former prisoner of conscience.

Report       NWS 11/090/1993

Ghana: Releases of political prisoners and new arrests
16 December 1992

AI welcomes the releases during 1992 of most political prisoners, including several prisoners of conscience, held in Ghana and also the repeal in September 1992 ...

Report       AFR 28/009/1992

UA 381/92 - Ghana: fear of ill-treatment / legal concern: Johnny ...
3 December 1992

AI is concerned about the detention without charge or trial of opposition leader Johnny Hansen, three wives and one brother of former political detainee Alhaji ...

Urgent Action       AFR 28/008/1992