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  • Police file injunction against Yvonne Nelson’s #DumsorMustStop protest

    Police file injunction against Yvonne Nelson’s #DumsorMustStop protest

    The Ghana Police Service has requested an injunction from the High Court to prevent actress Yvonne Nelson from carrying out her scheduled vigil, known as the “#DumsorMustStop,” in protest of the inconsistent power supply.

    This action was taken a few days after the protest organisers were advised by the Accra Regional Police Command to think about relocating the event.

    The demonstration is scheduled for Saturday, May 25, 2024. The actress alleges that the periodic blackout, or “dumsor,” that occurs in the area is having a negative effect on her business.

    In 2015, the actress led a demonstration along these lines.

    In accordance with the law, Yvonne Nelson and her group met with the Ghana Police Service a few days ago to inform them of the planned protest.

    Following the meeting, the police objected to the Yvonne Nelson’s team’s suggested route, arguing that Revolution Square, the intended destination, is near the Jubilee House, a security area.

    The police expressed apprehension regarding the plan to conclude the demonstration at midnight.

    On the other hand, protest organisers disagreed, stating that there were no problems with the protest’s end time and that the endpoint was far from the Jubilee House.

    In compliance with the Public Order Act, the police have immediately filed an application to end the protest.

    A hearing in this case has been set for May 24, 2024.

  • Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death

    Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death

    According to Toomaj Salehi’s attorney, dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death for his participation in the widespread protests that swept through Iran in 2022.

    “An order for the execution of Toomaj Salehi has been issued,” Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raesian tweeted Wednesday.

    The rapper was reportedly tortured after being arrested, detained, and kept in solitary confinement.

    According to Iranian pro-reform sites Shargh and Entekhab, an Isfahan court on Tuesday overturned the ruling of the higher Supreme Court in Saleh’s case, adopting the original finding of “corruption on earth” and imposing the death penalty as the maximum penalty. This is an unprecedented move.

    Toomaj Salehi

    Salehi, 32, was briefly released from jail last year before police brutally arrested him again and sent him to a prison in Isfahan, according to witnesses at the time. Salehi has been vocally critical of the Iranian regime and outspoken against the government in rap lyrics and on social media.

    In a statement released by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN experts said that he was detained again after he made an appearance in a video in which he claimed to have been subjected to abuse and held in solitary confinement for 252 days after his arrest in October 2022.

    Ye-One Rhie, a German member of parliament who supports Salehi politically in Europe, referred to Salehi’s death sentence as “absurd and inhumane.”

    “It is still completely unclear how this verdict came about,” she tweeted Wednesday. “It is unbelievable how irresponsibly and arbitrarily the Iranian regime treats defendants. It is impossible to recognize the rule of law in the chaos of the courts in charge.”

  • Yvonne Nelson calls for vigil to protest “Dumsor”

    Yvonne Nelson calls for vigil to protest “Dumsor”

    Actress and renowned producer from Ghana, Yvonne Nelson, has announced that she intends to organise another vigil in the country.

    For about some months, Ghana has been suffering from ongoing power outages. The brief outages at first gave customers hope that power would be restored in less than five minutes, but it later turned out that this was just a test to see what the ECG’s “timetable” for power outages would entail.

    The Electricity Company has been requested to share a load-shedding schedule in order to assist customers in planning their lives.

    In response, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the sector minister, called it “disrespectful,” “unfortunate,” and “unexpected,” and he added that if people needed a timeline to be published, they should bring their own.

    In 2015, Yvonne and IMANI Ghana organised a massive protest against the John Mahama administration due to power outages, and a number of celebrities joined them.

    Yvonne Nelson, however, urged Imani Ghana to organise a larger vigil against the Akufo-Addo government in a post on X.

    Celebrated Ghanaian actress says she has been waiting for Imani Ghana to get in touch the way they did years ago.

    “Imani Ghana, can we organize another vigil? I’ve been waiting for you to reach out like you did years back. ( your team made our demo a success ) I’m reaching out myself. The NPP and its leadership

    @NAkufoAddo have taken Ghanaians for granted. #DUMSORMUSTSTOP” She said

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