Lawyers of Democracy Hub, the organisers of the ‘Reoccupy Julorbi House’ and ‘Say No To Galamsey’ protest have petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the conduct of the police over the recent protest.
48 protesters were arrested after Saturday and Sunday’s protest. Twenty-Eight of them have been remanded into police custody after they were denied bail on Tuesday, September 24.
Eleven (11) others were also denied bail but were remanded into prison custody.
The police in a statement described the protest as an “unlawful assembly” and accused the protesters of disturbing public peace. The police proceeded to arrest the protesters and process them to court.
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However, the legal representatives of Democracy Hub have lamented the process and manner in which their clients were arrested and processed to court. They claim that the clients were given unfair treatment and described the arrest as “unlawful.”
They have since urged CHRAJ to investigate all allegations of unlawful arrest and treatment by the police.
Demands from Democracy Hub
In a petition sighted by 3News dated September 25, the lawyers are demanding that CHRAJ makes a finding that “the rights and freedoms of the protesters were violated.”
“That the police’s conduct including unlawful arrest, unlawful detention, detention without food, violation of the right to counsel, amounts to unprofessional conduct.”
The petition signed by Timothy Selikem Donkor on behalf of the lawyers for Democracy Hub also wants CHRAJ to take legal action against the police to ensure that the officers involved face the law.
The post CHRAJ petitioned to investigate police over ‘Say No To Galamsey’ protest first appeared on 3News.
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