U.N. Human Rights Office Asks Ghana to Halt Deportations of Migrants Sent From U.S. - The New York Times
U.N. Human Rights Office Asks Ghana to Halt Deportations of Migrants Sent From U.S. - The New York Times
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U.N. Human Rights Office Asks Ghana to Halt Deportations of Migrants Sent From U.S. - The New York Times

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U.N. Human Rights Office Asks Ghana to Halt Deportations of Migrants Sent From U.S. - The New York Times

Legal papers in the case identified the plaintiffs by little more than their initials and nationalities, for their protection. In a sworn statement, one, D.A., recounted that he had been beaten and tortured by police officers and soldiers in Nigeria who said that if they ever saw him again, they would kill him. A bisexual man from Gambia, K.S., has already been deported by Ghana to Gambia, where he is in hiding. Gambia criminalizes relationships between men with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. As recently as Sept. 15, D.A. and three other migrants were being held at a remote detention facility in Ghana known as Dema Camp, whose location has not been disclosed. Their lawyers declined to say if they were still in Ghana for fear of putting them in more danger. In their sworn statements, the migrants described abysmal conditions both during their initial deportations from the United States and at Dema Camp. While in U.S. detention on Sept. 5, the migrants said, they were awakened late at night, shackled and put on a military cargo plane without being allowed to notify family or legal counsel, and, in at least one case, without identification documents. They said that some of them were placed in straitjackets for up to 16 hours during the flight, and D.A. claimed that his straitjacket was secured so tightly that he has had difficulty walking ever since.

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