The lawsuit was filed by Ghanaian law firm Merton & Everett LLP, the Cornell Law School Transnational Disputes Clinic in the United States, and the Global Strategic Litigation Council, a coalition of non-governmental organisations.
Some lawyers have instituted a suit against Ghana before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, accusing the West African country of violating regional and domestic laws by accepting deportees from the United States under Washington's third-country deportation policy and facilitating their return to countries where they allegedly face persecution.
The legal action, filed on Monday at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja, represents 27 deportees who were among at least 60 people sent to Ghana by the United States since September under President Donald Trump's expanded immigration enforcement programme.
According to the legal team, many of those deported had previously secured asylum or other legal protections in the United States but were nevertheless transferred to Ghana after U.S. authorities argued they could not be returned directly to their countries of origin.
The lawsuit was filed by Ghanaian law firm Merton & Everett LLP, the Cornell Law School Transnational Disputes Clinic in the United States, and the Global Strategic Litigation Council, a coalition of non-governmental organisations.
