Nigerians, others deported by US to Ghana sue over detention

A radical of West Africans deported from the United States has sued the authorities of Ghana, alleging they were sent to the state contempt having deportation extortion orders from US migration authorities.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday successful a Ghanaian tribunal connected behalf of 11 deportees from Nigeria, Togo, Gambia, Liberia and Mali, said they person been held without complaint since their accomplishment and without due entree to ineligible representation.

Ghanaian President John Mahama revealed past week his authorities had struck a woody with the United States to judge deportees from West Africa arsenic the medication of Donald Trump cracks down connected immigrants.

Trump has overseen an unprecedented enlargement of the signifier of deporting radical to countries different than their federation of root — notably by sending hundreds to a notorious situation successful El Salvador.

The deportations to Ghana are believed to person started successful aboriginal September and much are underway — though Accra has kept details nether wraps, including the deportees’ nonstop whereabouts, believed to beryllium a subject facility.

The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, told AFP Friday helium is suing for their release, arsenic good arsenic to halt their eventual removal to their location countries.

“They are not charged with violations of immoderate Ghanaian law,” Barker-Vormawor said.

“All of these radical were seeking asylum successful the US, and they’ve made wide that they were facing persecution — whether successful transportation with spiritual reasons, political, and adjacent connected the ground of their intersexual orientation.”

– Whereabouts disputed –

Announcing that an archetypal radical of 14 deportees had arrived successful Ghana, officials said that deportees would beryllium allowed to stay successful the state temporarily, per determination visa-free question rules, oregon instrumentality home.

Officials initially said that each of the archetypal 14 had returned home.

In fact, 3 person returned to their state of root but 11 stay successful detention, Barker-Vormawor said.

Barker-Vormawor said helium has written to the subject but has yet to beryllium allowed to visit.

Four of the detainees are Nigerian, 3 are Togolese, 2 are Malian, 1 is Liberian and 1 is Gambian.

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said Wednesday that 40 much deportees were expected successful the coming days.

Ablakwa said the determination to judge the deportees was based connected humanitarian concerns and was not an “endorsement” of US migration policy.

The Ghanaian lawyer general’s bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Barker-Vormawor said an chartless fig of deportees had arrived Thursday.

According to the lawsuit, the archetypal 14 deportees arrived sometime astir September 6 — a week earlier the authorities made the announcement — though Barker-Vormawor said the timeline was unclear.

AFP

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