In its 2022 annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. Department of State criticized Ghana for a number of violations of human rights.
The report, which was published in April 2023, accused Ghana of violating a variety of human rights, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary or unlawful killings, torture, and harsh, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government or on its behalf.
The report also revealed that there were serious restrictions on free expression and media, including violence and threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists; substantial interference with the freedom of peaceful assembly; serious government corruption; lack of investigation of and accountability for gender-based violence, including domestic or intimate partner violence; crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or intersex persons; laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual conduct between adults, although not fully enforced; and crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting persons with disabilities.
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The report claims that even if the administration made some efforts to combat official corruption and violations of human rights, whether they occurred in the security forces or elsewhere in the government, impunity remained a problem.
The report highlighted that corruption, brutality, uneven training, lack of oversight, and an overburdened judicial system contributed to police impunity.
According to the research, police impunity was a result of corruption, brutality, inconsistent training, a lack of oversight, and an overworked legal system.
It was mentioned that police frequently did not react to allegations of crimes. Police frequently refused to respond to complaints until citizens covered their transportation costs and other operating costs.
The report also mentioned that on February 11, police arrested Oliver Barker-Vormawor, an activist critical of the government, in response to a series of Facebook posts.
After initially charging him with misdemeanour charges of making false statements, police upgraded the charges to felony treason and held him in prison for 35 days before a judge released him on bail.
SOURCE: CITINEWS
