Ghana: Former President's Guards Assault Newspaper Journalist

press release

On 8 November 2008, Wisdom Peter Awuku, a reporter for the "Daily Guide", an Accra-based privately-owned newspaper, was allegedly assaulted by three men guarding a house belonging to Ghana's former president, Jerry John Rawlings, in Vume, a town near Sogakope in the Volta Region.

According to Awuku, the guards assaulted him and briefly confiscated his camera, mobile phone and car key.

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