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    ‘Many people are fearful for their lives and safety’

    Jul 23, 2021 3 minutes
    By Emmanuel Akinwotu HO

    ‘All I wanted to do was help vulnerable people,” said Shaun Apong, tears streaking down his face, from behind the bars of a squalid police cell in Ho City in eastern Ghana.

    Apong was one of 21 people who were arrested in early June, charged with unlawful assembly and accused of spreading an LGBT+ agenda, amid a marked and sudden increase in sensitivities around the rights and advocacy of gay and queer people in the west African

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