Ghana Faced Complaint Over US Deportation Policies Under Trump Administration

A Complaint Has Been Filed Against Ghana Over Deportation Deal with US

A complaint has been filed against Ghana at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice in Abuja, alleging that the country is violating domestic and regional law by facilitating removals to unsafe countries. The complaint was brought on behalf of 27 deportees who were sent to Ghana under a deal with the US.

The complainants claim that they had been granted protections in the US but were removed from Ghana within hours or days of their arrival, often without being provided with adequate means to continue their journeys. Some were left stranded in third countries with no way to proceed.

Ghana has not disclosed the terms of its agreement with the US, which relates to West Africans. The complaint alleges that Ghana is violating regional law by allowing the removals to take place.

The lawsuit was filed alongside Cornell Law School’s Transnational Disputes Clinic and the Global Strategic Litigation Council, a coalition of NGOs. The group aims to force Ghana to disclose the terms of the deal with the US and block any future deportees under the arrangement.

A similar complaint was filed earlier this year at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to halt US deportations to Equatorial Guinea. The case involved 14 deportees, including several who remain in detention under conditions described as arbitrary and indefinite.

The complainants are seeking compensation of at least $100,000 for each deportee from Ghana, along with other reparations.

Source: Al Jazeera