An international coalition of rights lawyers and advocates files lawsuits challenging Ghana’s role in “third-country” deportation arrangements involving the United States. Multiple outlets report that at least 60 West African deportees have been sent to Ghana since September under US expulsion policies, with Ghana receiving people who had been transferred from the United States rather than returned directly to their origin countries.
According to Courthouse News, ABC News International, PBS NewsHour, The Independent, and Nigerian outlets including Punch and Vanguard, the legal claims target Ghana’s government, alleging violations of international human rights standards connected to the handling and transfer of deportees under the Trump administration. Lawyers contend that the transfers force people back to countries they fled, and that some deportees are sent on to other locations without the proper documentation.
The Citizen (South Africa) specifies that a firm, Merton & Everett LLP, files suit in Abuja on behalf of 27 deportees, alleging Ghana “dumped” migrants in Togo without documents after US transfers. The lawsuits are also described as being brought before regional judicial bodies such as the ECOWAS court, depending on the report.
