A Ho Circuit Court, has acquitted and discharged 21 persons alleged to be members of the LGBTQI+ community.

The 21 who were arrested in May this year, were arraigned and charged with unlawful assembly.

According to a statement issued by the police, the suspects, drawn from Greater Accra, Ashanti, Upper East, Upper West, Eastern, Northern and the Volta regions, converged on the Nurses and Midwives Hotel in Ho on Thursday, 20 May 2021, to advocate LGBTQI rights.

The suspects, including 16 females and 5 males, were then remanded in police custody on Friday, 21 May 2021.

They were granted bail of GHS5,000 with one surety each on 11 June 2021.

Some LGBTQI+ books and flyers were retrieved upon preliminary investigations.

The case was thrown out after the Senior State Attorney noted that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate the charge and had, accordingly, advised that the case be struck out, and the accused persons discharged.