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According to Joyce Opoku Boateng, the rights of LGBT people must be respected.
“I don’t think it will be right for anyone to invade their office and attack them because they have not met to engage in any sexual activities. Every human being when you’re born has a fundamental right that no one can take away from you. But we have our norms and culture that frown upon certain things,” she said.
In an interview on Accra-based Starr FM, she said “If you are caught in the act of having unnatural carnal practice then that’s criminal but when someone expresses his/herself, that’s not criminal because the law is not against that. Assuming someone dresses like a female and you go and beat up the person, it’s a clear case of assault.”
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ACCRA – Security personnel in Ghana have closed down a newly opened community center by a LGBTQ+ rights group in the capital after religious and political leaders campaigned against it. Members of the group called the closure a violation of their constitutional right to assembly.
An unnamed member of LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana on Wednesday posted video on Twitter of what they said was a police raid on their community center.
“There is police and there is a car. What are we going to do? Oh my God. You guys, this is getting really serious,” a person is heard saying on the video.
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A human rights lawyer, Joyce Opoku Boateng, has opined that it will be illegal to shut down an office of the LGBTQI group which has popped up in Ghana.
According to Madam Boateng, though the customs and laws of Ghana frown on the act, these individuals have rights which must be respected.
“I don’t think it will be right for anyone to invade their office and attack them because they have not met to engage in sexual activities.
“Every human being when you’re born has a fundamental right that no one can take away from you. But we have our norms and culture that frown upon certain things,” she argued on Accra-based Starr FM.