Young Peoples and Human Rights Ghana

By On Top Magazine Staff Published: September 01, 2011 Sam Pee Yalley, former deputy minister under Ghana's Jerry Rawlings administration, has called for gay people to be charged with genocide. In an interview broadcast Wednesday on Citi FM's Eyewitness News, Yalley denied Attorney General Martin Amidu's recent claim that sex between consenting adults of the same gender in the privacy of their own home is not illegal in the African nation. “There is another section of the criminal code which people are not taking a look at, it is about genocide,” said Yalley, a public interest lawyer. “Genocide results in the extermination of the human race and if you expand the meaning of homosexuality to mean that a man cannot have a child with another man, then it means that [the] practice would lead to the extermination of mankind and therefore for me if I am to charge anybody apart from having unnatural carnal knowledge, I would also charge him with genocide and see how he can get out

PRESS RELEASE Following the briefing note published by the collective, dated August 29, 2011 about the case of the four persons arrested and detained for homosexuality in Yaoundé, which had been brought to his knowledge (see HYPERLINK "http://sidado.org/latest/nouveau-cas-darrestation-pour-homosexualite.html" http://sidado.org/latest/nouveau-cas-darrestation-pour-homosexualite.html) the collective of organizations ADEFHO (Association for the defense of homosexuals), SID’ADO (teenagers against HIV/AIDS), COFENHO ( group of families with homosexual children) After collecting the details surrounding the arrest, wish to inform the national and international Community about the following facts: Ombwa Joseph Magloire 46 years old, painter receives at his home for his work, visits of tourists. Something noticed by his neighbors who on August 10 2011 decided to alert the Gendarmerie Brigade of the Lake in Yaoundé which came to arrest him on the