The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the government of Ghana to pay $75,000 in damages for violating the fundamental human rights of 30 members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), also known as Western Togoland activists.
The court ruled that the state violated the rights of the so-called Western Togolanders by detaining them for more than a year without trial, and ordered that each of the 30 members be paid $2,500 in compensation.
On May 16, 2025, the High Court in Accra also acquitted and discharged three Ghanaians who had been linked to the group.
Following the ruling, the three men shared the ordeals they had endured over the past five years since their arrest.
