jul 12, 1958 - Preventive Detention Act

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First the CPP banned parties that were based on ethnic or regional sentiment (Avoidance of Discrimination Act), thus compelling the Togoland Congress to enter an alliance with the Ghana-wide United Party; then, in July 1958, it passed a Preventive Detention Act, and proceeded to arrest parliamentarians who were representing the former Togoland Congress. As an increasing number of arrests were made throughout Ghana, including the former British Togoland, Ablode activists began to flee across the border into francophone Togo to avoid detention. By October 1961, the Togolese minister of the interior informed the UN that 5,700 Ghanaians (belonging to various ethnic groups and former opposition parties) had taken refuge in Togo.

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