A judge in Ghana denied bail for 21 LGBTQ activists who were arrested during a police raid of a human rights conference in the West African country.
The judge did not give any further details, the defendants' attorney Julia Selman Ayetey told Reuters after the June 8 hearing.
Two hours into the May 20 conference in Ho, police and uninvited journalists raided Rightify Ghana's workshop for paralegals working with LGBTQ Ghanaians to train them on best practices for properly gathering evidence, documenting, and reporting human rights abuses. "The event started at 9 a.m.
on Thursday with about 25 persons in attendance," said Alex Kofi Donkor, the founder and director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana. "Two hours later, some journalists invaded the space and