Founding father of LGBTQI middle shut down in Ghana says he fears for his security
Alex Kofi Donkor, who heads the center named ‘LGBT+ Rights Ghana’ in the country’s capital, Accra, told CNN Thursday that he is now concerned for his safety after the raid.
“I just contacted our lawyers, there is an unsafe situation right now, and I need to go offline,” Donkor told CNN.
The community center — which opened on January 31 in a ceremony attended by a delegation of the European Union and other foreign embassies — faced opposition from the start and attracted a lot of anger among locals who called for it to be closed down.
Ghana proscribes same-sex relationships and intolerance and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people has remained rife among Ghana’s population, Human Rights Watch said.
Being in a same-sex relationship in Ghana’s LGBT can attract between three to 25 years in prison, according to the country’s penal code.
A spokesman for Ghana Police Service declined to comment on the shutdown of the not-for-profit center, described as a…
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