Third GITMO Man Spotted In Ghana
File photo: The two former Guantanamo bay detainees A third freed person from the Guantanamo Bay prisons has been spotted in Ghana. Mohammed El Gharani came to Ghana on his volition. He is currently...
Tag: Human rights abuses
Uganda Hails Surrender of Senior LRA Commander
Uganda's army on Wednesday hailed the surrender of a senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army who was in charge of communication for leader Joseph Kony. Major Michael Omona returned to his...
Paris Clashes After French Police Kill Chinese Man
Violence in Paris over the police killing of a Chinese man has left three police officers injured with more than 30 people detained. Demonstrators had gathered outside a police station on Monday to...
Paris Clashes After French Police Kill Chinese Man
Violence in Paris over the police killing of a Chinese man has left three police officers injured with more than 30 people detained. Demonstrators had gathered outside a police station on Monday to...
Tanzanians Mock Magufuli Over Press Freedom Warning
Tanzanians have been taking to Twitter to poke fun at President John Magufuli, as criticism mounts against his government's attitude towards freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Last week he...
Operations Against Kony’s LRA ‘coming To An End’
The US military is wrapping up operations against the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa, even though its leader Joseph Kony is still at large, a top US general said Friday. "This thing is...
Fourteen Naked Men and Women Slaughter A Sheep At Auschwitz
A group of naked men and women today slaughtered a sheep in a bizarre ritual at the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland. Fourteen people, aged between 20 and 27, chained themselves...
Gambia To Set Up Truth Commission To Probe Jammeh’s Rule
The Gambia will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses committed during ex-President Yahya Jammeh's rule, the justice minister has said. The finances of Mr Jammeh would...
The Untold Abuses On Ghanaian Workers By Expatriate Employers
The incident of the Marwako assault reportedly took place on February, 26, at the Abelemkpe branch of the Marwako Restaurant. It’s no longer news, the untold abuse being meted out on Ghanaian...
India Child Protection Officers Held In Trafficking Probe
Two child protection officers have been arrested for alleged links with a trafficking gang that ran illegal adoption centres in eastern India selling children to foreign couples, police said...
Trump Torture Remarks
There was no immediate response from the U. S. delegation to the 47-member state forum in Geneva. A U. N. human rights expert voiced alarm on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump might allow...
Amnesty Report Says Kenya Tops Africa In Extrajudicial Killings
Kenya has been ranked top in Africa in cases of police shootings and killing of civilians according to a report by Amnesty International shows. The report indicates that by October 2016, a total of...
24 Trafficked Children Rescued In Eastern Region – MP
The Member of Parliament for Asuogyaman Constituency in the Eastern Region, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, has called on relevant institutions to intensify public sensitization on the risks of trafficking and...
Pursue Persons Who Violated Kumasi Woman – OccupyGhana
Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has demanded police arrest, and prosecute to the full extent of the law, persons in the video seen stripping and sexually assaulting a woman accused of theft in Kumasi,...
Pursue Persons Who Violated Kumasi Woman
Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has demanded police arrest, and prosecute to the full extent of the law, persons in the video seen stripping and sexually assaulting a woman accused of theft in Kumasi,...
Police Rescue Over 360 Girls From Trafficking
MORE than 360 young girls were rescued from being trafficked into the gulf countries in 2016, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (ATHU) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has disclosed. It said a total...
Thai Junta Urged To Drop Case Against Torture Activists
Rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai army to drop defamation charges against three activists over a landmark report on torture in the conflict-hit south, decrying the prosecution as an effort to...
‘Shadowy Assassins’ Murder Hundreds In the Philippines
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte may have ordered police to withdraw from his brutal drug war, but the bodies continue to pile up at a rate of 10 a day. Shadowy assassins have killed nearly 150...
Amnesty Urges Probe Over India Minister Torture Claim
A cabinet minister who claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects should be investigated for human rights abuses, Amnesty International has said. Uma Bharti, in charge of water...
Amnesty Urges Probe Over India Minister Torture Claim
Amnesty International called on Tuesday for an Indian cabinet minister to be investigated for human rights abuses after she claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects. Water resources...