Ghana has deported the eleven West Africans transferred from the United States to the country according to the lawyer representing the deportees.
Per Reuters, at least six of them are now said to be in neighbouring Togo, the lawyer, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, told Reuters after a court hearing, with the whereabouts of the other five unknown. The eleven deportees included four Nigerians, three Togolese, two Malians, one Liberian and one Gambian.
Last week, Barker-Vormawor filed a lawsuit on behalf of the deportees asking that a court in Accra block any move to send them to their home countries but they were deported over the weekend.
“This is precisely the injury we were trying to prevent,” Barker-Vormawor said, adding that the lawsuit he’d filed was now “moot” and was being withdrawn.
Barker-Vormawor’s lawsuit had argued that at least eight of the deportees he was representing had been granted protection by U.S. immigration judges against deportation to their home countries due to risks of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment.
