Arbrary arrts and tentn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Ghana, and a proposed dranian anti-LGBT bill are g ser enomic hardship and psychologil strs for LGBT people, Human Rights Watch said today.
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EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
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(Johannburg) – Arbrary arrts and tentn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Ghana, and a proposed dranian anti-LGBT bill are g ser enomic hardship and psychologil strs for LGBT people, Human Rights Watch said today. Police erroneoly jtified the arrts on the grounds that the trag ssn was “promotg homosexualy” and that the gatherg was an “unlawful assembly. The urt said that all Ghanaians, cludg lbians and homosexuals, are entled to eely exprs their views, to assemble and monstrate support of those views and to propagate those views.
A., a 35-year-old gay man om Hohoe, a municipaly the Volta regn, said that beg taed left him feelg huiated, though the vis of a sympathetic pastor migated the suatn. Publicly nmn all threats and acts of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, cludg vlence by fay members.
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