After three failed efforts, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the convenor of the Democracy Hub-organized anti-galamsey protest, was granted ¢20,000 bail on Wednesday, October 16. Both the Circuit Court and the Accra High Court had rejected his prior bail requests. Mr Barker-Vormawor was ...
Read More »Protesters against Galamsey: Ama Governor and eight others received ¢70,000 bail each, backed by two sureties
Ama Governor and eight other participants in the recent anti-galamsey protests have been granted bail by an Accra High Court headed over by Justice Comfort Tasiame. The bail amount is GH¢70,000, and each defendant must provide two sureties. Emmanuel Gyan, ...
Read More »Today is the first of a three-day rally demanding the release of anti-galamsey demonstrators.
Today, Thursday, October 3, in Accra, marks the start of a three-day protest in which demonstrators are calling for the immediate release of 53 demonstrators from Democracy Hub who were detained at last week’s anti-galamsey demonstration. The goal of the ...
Read More »More people detained Demonstrators from Democracy Hub appear in court.
Today, a new batch of detained Democracy Hub demonstrators appeared in court in Accra. Before their planned hearing, the eleven young people arrived in a bus and were heavily guarded. The convenor of #FixTheCountry was noticeably missing from the group; ...
Read More »Cases against 39 demonstrators from Democracy Hub have been postponed until October 8 and 11.
The Accra court has remanded about 39 demonstrators into detention in relation to the demonstration organised by the pressure organisation Democracy Hub. After showing up in court today, ten of the demonstrators who had been detained during the #OccupyJulorbiHouse demonstration ...
Read More »Officers promise to apply the law to maintain order during the demonstrations at Democracy Hub.
The leaders of the Democracy Hub have received a warning from the Ghana Police Service that legal actions will be taken to keep the peace following protesters’ major disruption of traffic on the first day of their rally. The Police ...
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