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In other words, LGBTQ+ activism would become illegal in addition to the current criminalization of same-sex activity, a holdover from the British colonial era.īut because this bill has not yet been signed into law, it remains that the detainment of the 21 LGBTQ+ activists is extrajudicial. While LGBT Rights Ghana, the organization behind the center, created a GoFundMe with the intention of raising funds for a new space, lawmakers introduced a bill in March that would criminalize “both the act and the advocacy” of homosexuality. The attack took place after Ignatius Annor, a prominent Ghanian journalist, came out as gay live on air during a EuroNews broadcast, attracting international attention. In February, a queer community center in Accra, the country’s capital, was violently raided by the police after only a month of operation.
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The incident is the latest in Ghana’s continued oppression of LGBTQ+ people, a trend which has escalated steadily in the first half of 2021. “This arrest and detention is a clear incident of homophobia and an attempt by the Ghana Police Service to punish and abuse the rights of upright Ghanaians whose only interest is to protect the human rights of people who the police fail to protect - especially sexual minorities,” said Robert Akoto Amoafo, the president of AfED, in a statement posted to Twitter.