Ghana's LGBTQ community has called for the release of 21 people, who were arrested by security forces last week while attending a conference in the southeastern city of Ho.
A court in the Ho district on Friday ordered the 21 accused, who were charged with"unlawful assembly" to be remanded in police custody until their reappearance in court on June 4. "LGBTQ persons continuously experience indiscriminate arrest and discrimination in Ghana because of their known or perceived sexual orientation... so some organizations chose to train some individuals within their various localities on human rights laws that exist in Ghana and how they can protect themselves and deal with issues of abuses when they arise within their local spaces," Donkor told CNN.
Efforts by human rights lawyers to secure the release of the detainees were rejected by the Ho Circuit Court, Donkor said.
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