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A journalist, Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri, sued the national security coordinator and two others for alleged torture by national security agents.
Mr. Abugri asks the human rights division of the High Court to instruct the Attorney General to find, appoint and indict the National Security Coordinator and officials directly or indirectly involved in human rights violations. human rights against him.
He also asks the court to order the immediate and unconditional release and delivery of all the items seized.
Mr. Abugri also wants the court to award him fair, adequate and prompt compensation for violations of his right to personal liberty and any other remedy the court deems appropriate.
Additional instructions
The National Security Coordinator and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) are respectively the first and second respondents.
Mr Ajarfor's application for the application of his fundamental rights was lodged on his behalf by his lawyer, Mr Samson Lardy Anyenini.
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Mr. Abugri asks the court to judge him without having arrested him without a judicial warrant and without having previously informed him of the reasons for his arrest, the national security coordinator, the IGP and their representatives. have violated his right to liberty.
He also asks the court to find that by forcibly seizing his electronic gadgets and accessing their contents without his consent or his mandate, the National Security Coordinator or the National Security Secretariat officials violated his right. to privacy.
Mr. Abugri asks the court to conclude that by submitting him to an interrogation or interrogation without having informed him of his right to the badistance of a lawyer or without giving him the opportunity to have a lawyer of his choice badisted, the agents of the National Security Coordinator and the PGI raped, raped or threatened to violate his right to a fair trial.
He stated that the court should rule that "by questioning me, a reporter, about a media publication that they attributed to him or to that of the media for which I work, and advancing under the threat of harm or threat, warn me. , the first defendant or his representatives harbaded and intimidated me and thus violated, are violating or are likely to violate my right to freedom of expression or information and to practice journalism freely. "
Affidavit to support
In an affidavit in support of the application to uphold his fundamental rights, Mr. Ajarfor said Thursday, June 27, 2019, that he had been arrested in his office near the A & C mall. , East Legon, Greater Accra region, who identified themselves as officials of the National Security Council Secretariat and two uniformed officers of the Ghana Police Service, each carrying an AK47 badault rifle.
"Upon my arrest, the said persons immediately, by force, by imminent threat of harm and without a warrant, seized an HP notebook, two mobile phones – an Infinix Zero 4 and an Infinix Zero 5 – and a Huawei tablet. , "The affidavit says.
Mr. Ajarfor stated that he was, along with another of his colleagues, "immediately flogged and forced to get into a waiting vehicle, after which my head was covered with a black bag of polythene, and then taken to an unknown place in Accra ".
According to Mr. Ajarfor, on arrival at the unknown location, other officers apparently acting under the control, the command or instructions of the National Security Coordinator joined their other three colleagues, who have arrested earlier for the night interview about publications his press house, ModernGhana.com, had published articles with regard to the Minister of National Security.
He added that the publications, which called for the dismissal of the Minister of National Security, Mr. Albert Kan-Dapaah, had been drafted by Constance Kwabeng of a group called the United Patriots Group.
He added that the said publications had been withdrawn the day before his arrest following a complaint lodged by officials of the Secretariat for National Security.
According to the complainant, officials of the National Security Secretariat subjected him to torture, including several slaps and military exercises, with the aim of asking for information about Constance Kwabeng's whereabouts.
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