(Free Expression Ghana/IFEX) – Three recently jailed Ghanaian journalists, Haruna Atta, Kweku Baako Jr., and Ebenezer Ato Sam, have been moved from the relatively better conditions at the Nsawam Medium Prisons to three different locations in the country which are notorious for their poor conditions. **Updates IFEX alerts of 30, 28 and 24 July** Kweku […]
(Free Expression Ghana/IFEX) – Three recently jailed Ghanaian journalists,
Haruna Atta, Kweku Baako Jr., and Ebenezer Ato Sam, have been moved from the
relatively better conditions at the Nsawam Medium Prisons to three different
locations in the country which are notorious for their poor conditions.
**Updates IFEX alerts of 30, 28 and 24 July**
Kweku Baako Jr. and Ato Sam have been taken to the Winneba and Anomabo
Prisons respectively, both in the Central Region, while Haruna Atta is now
at the Akuse Prisons in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Human rights and free
expression activists see the separation as an attempt to break their spirits
and make it relatively difficult for sympathisers to visit them in jail.
In connection with this turn of events, Friends of Free Expression, an
ad-hoc organisation, in solidarity with the jailed journalists, held a
well-attended solidarity night on 29 July 1998, to outline plans for the
continual support of free expression and to maintain pressure on the
judiciary not to continue with this trend of unrealistic rulings against
journalists.
