A final year student of the Nungua Kroma Two Junior High School (JHS) in Accra, together with 15 other men, on Monday, February 22, assaulted a teacher for punishing him over failure to do his homework. The student, after he was punished, run home to call the 15 others, who stormed the school in a Sprinter Bus to attack the teacher, inflicting wounds on his face in the process. The teacher, Mr Moses Onyameasem, was rescued by his colleagues and was rushed to the LEKMA Hospital, where he was treated and discharged. After the attack, the mother of the student was also alleged to have besieged the school and rained insults on the teacher.
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The swift intervention of the police saved a 25-year-old motorbike robbery suspect from being lynched by a mob.
Luck eluded Edem Morkli, when he was accosted by bystanders and beaten whilst his two accomplices managed to escape, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, Head of Public Affairs Unit, Accra Regional Police Command, told the Ghana News Agency.
She said on Tuesday, February 23, at about 1840 hours, police received a distress call on a mob attack on Morkly at Shiashie around GS Plaza Hotel.
“The suspect, together with two others, currently at large, attacked a 27-year-old motor rider and inflicted a deep cut on his left arm, which made him bleed profusely,” DSP Tenge explained.
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The GFD had planned to embark on a series of demonstrations for 10 days effective Thursday
The Accra Regional Police Command has secured a restraining order prohibiting members of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) from embarking on a planned demonstration scheduled for Thursday, 18 February, 2021.
The Accra High Court under Justice Elfreda Amy Dankyi prohibited members of the group from embarking on the protest in a matter that was brought before it between the Republic (Ghana Police Service) and the GFD and Rita Kusi Kyeremaa.
A statement issued the Regional Public Affairs Unit of the Ghana Police, signed by Chief Inspector Bright Kwabena Danso of the Public Affairs Unit and released on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, said: “The prohibition order follows an Affidavit filed by the Police upon receipt of notification from the Executive Director of the GFD, Rita Kusi Kyeremaa, on the intended demonstration.”
Searches targeting human rights defenders in Belarus of utmost concern, OSCE human rights head says
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WARSAW, 16 February 2021 – Following a wave of concerted police searches of human rights activists throughout Belarus today, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) voices its utmost concern and calls on the Belarusian authorities to respect the rights of those who seek to protect the rights of their fellow citizens and not to criminalize their legitimate human rights work. Human rights defenders in Belarus have long played an important role in promoting the rights of their fellow citizens, despite many challenges. It is therefore very concerning to read reports of what seems to be a concerted effort by the Belarusian authorities to investigate and intimidate them, in connection to the peaceful protests that have been taking place in Belarus for many months. I call on the authorities in Belarus to respect the rights of human rights defenders in