Document #1144153
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information regarding the November 1985 and
May 1986 coup attempts, over and above that which has already been
supplied to you in Responses to Information Requests Nos. 5465 and
5135, is currently unavailable to the IRBDC.
Information regarding the March 1984 coup
attempt is documented in the following attachments as well as in
various encyclopedias available at the Montreal Regional IRB
Documentation Centre:
Donald I. Ray, Ghana: Politics, Economics and Society,
London: Frances Pinter Publishers, 1986, pp.108-110.
Colin Legum, ed., Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and
Documents 1984-1985, New York: Africana Publishing Company,
1986, pp.B453-B465.
2.
Information regarding the June 1983 coup
attempt and Captain Adjei Ampofo's role in it can be found in
Response to Information Request No. 5529, available at the Montreal
Regional IRB Documentation Centre.
3.
Information regarding the consequences of
being charged with plotting to overthrow the government or with
subversion has been addressed in Responses to Information Requests
Nos. 5132 and 5135, previously sent to your office. The "Ghana:
Country Profile", prepared by the IRBDC, Ottawa, January 1990,
addresses the issue in section 4.3 entitled "Legal Rights". This
document is available at the Montreal Regional IRB Documentation
Centre.