Ghana: 1) Provide information on the activities of the B.N.I. (Bureau of National Investigation). What types of investigations do they carry out? Confirm the location and address of B.N.I. headquarters. 2) Information on dissidents and opponents of Rawlings, including their purpose, in Abidjan. 3) What is the punishment reserved for people caught with "Seditious Documents"? What punishment is given to people who want to overthrow the government and to those who support the dissidents? 4) Provide information on the offence of not reporting to the police when required to do so. What type of punishment is likely to be carried out? 5) Provide information about an organization named MAMA. What are its purposes, leaders, and is it banned in Ghana? 6) Confirm the murder of various judges in 1982 by government soldiers. 7) Provide information on the Bar Association in Ghana and its activities in opposition to the government. 8) Confirm that in June 1989 the Bar Association in Ghana attempted to organize lectures to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the judges in 1982. Confirm MAMA's assistance to this project. 9) Confirm that in June 1989 demonstrations occurred which included people who supported the government and people who supported the Bar Association in opposition to the government. 10) Confirm the existence of a list of wanted persons who helped organize the lectures and demonstrations against the government. 11) Provide Amnesty International Reports for the years 1988 and 1989. 12) Provide articles in the Ghanaian Times which show the conflict between the Bar Association and the government dated June 26, 27, and July 10. Also provide West Africa articles dated July 10, 1989. 13) Provide information on the public tribunals in Ghana. How are they viewed by the people and various professions? Why are they apparently boycotted? 14) Provide information on P.N.D.C. laws relating to detention. Confirm that there is no right to Habeas Corpus in Ghana
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 July 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | GHA6490 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ghana: 1) Provide information on the activities of the B.N.I. (Bureau of National Investigation). What types of investigations do they carry out? Confirm the location and address of B.N.I. headquarters. 2) Information on dissidents and opponents of Rawlings, including their purpose, in Abidjan. 3) What is the punishment reserved for people caught with "Seditious Documents"? What punishment is given to people who want to overthrow the government and to those who support the dissidents? 4) Provide information on the offence of not reporting to the police when required to do so. What type of punishment is likely to be carried out? 5) Provide information about an organization named MAMA. What are its purposes, leaders, and is it banned in Ghana? 6) Confirm the murder of various judges in 1982 by government soldiers. 7) Provide information on the Bar Association in Ghana and its activities in opposition to the government. 8) Confirm that in June 1989 the Bar Association in Ghana attempted to organize lectures to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the judges in 1982. Confirm MAMA's assistance to this project. 9) Confirm that in June 1989 demonstrations occurred which included people who supported the government and people who supported the Bar Association in opposition to the government. 10) Confirm the existence of a list of wanted persons who helped organize the lectures and demonstrations against the government. 11) Provide Amnesty International Reports for the years 1988 and 1989. 12) Provide articles in the Ghanaian Times which show the conflict between the Bar Association and the government dated June 26, 27, and July 10. Also provide West Africa articles dated July 10, 1989. 13) Provide information on the public tribunals in Ghana. How are they viewed by the people and various professions? Why are they apparently boycotted? 14) Provide information on P.N.D.C. laws relating to detention. Confirm that there is no right to Habeas Corpus in Ghana, 1 July 1990, GHA6490, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad1448.html [accessed 3 November 2019] |
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1) Please refer to the article: "They Come at Midnight" in Africa Events, London: Dar es Salaam, March\April 1988 and the Ghana section in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988.
2) Information about this group is currently unavailable to the Documentation Centre.
3) Please refer to the attachments entitled: Revolutionary and Dissident Movements, Essex: Longman Group UK Limited, 1988;
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988, Washington: Department of State, February 1989; Donald I. Ray, Ghana: Politics, Economics and Society, London: Francis Pinter, 1986; Index on Censorship, London: Writers & Scholars, September 1988; "Coup plotters on Trial" in West Africa, London: West Africa Publishing Company Limited, 1986; Response to Information Request #5139; Africa South of the Sahara 1990, London: Europa Publication Limited, 1990 ; "Ghanaians Gamble", The Gazette , Montreal: February 20, 1988; the report presented to RSAC by the Baptist Refugee Aid Committee, April 7, 1988; Information, Freedom and Censorship, London: Longman Publications, 1988; Africa Contemporary Record, London: Africana Publishing Company, 1982-83.
4) 5) Information on this subject is currently unavailable to the Documentation Centre.
6) Please refer to the attachments entitled Africa Contemporary Record, London: Africana Publishing Company, 1982-83 and 1986-87; Response to Information Request #2980, and Donald I. Ray, Ghana: Politics, Economics and Society, London: Francis Pinter, 1986.
7) 8) 9) Please refer to Responses to Information Requests #2980 and #3044.
10) Information regarding this topic is currently unavailable to the Documentation Centre.
11) Please refer to the Amnesty International Report, London: Amnesty International Publications, 1988 and 1989.
12) Please refer to the article entitled "The Curve of Dirty Politics" in the Ghanaian Times, Accra: June 27, 1989; and West Africa, London: West Africa Publishing Company, 10-16 July 1989.
13) Please refer to the attachments entitled: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988, Washington: Department of State, February 1989; and The Public Tribunals in Ghana, New York: Amnesty International USA, July 1984.
14) Please refer to the attachment entitled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988, Washington: U.S. Government Printers, February 1989, prepared by the U.S. Department of State.
