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The Attorney General’s Department has filed a stay of execution of a Human Rights Court ruling ordering the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to return the former Foreign Affairs Minister’s passport.The stay will enable the A-G appeal the ruling, the second on the case after the first appeal last month was thrown out of court.The BNI seized Mr Osei-Adjei’s passport following its investigations into rice imported from India which the BNI said his ministry facilitated in a fraudulent manner.A Human Rights Court ruled in August that the BNI has no right to hold on to his passport since he was yet to be charged.But the A-G’s department is pushing against the earlier verdict of the Human Rights Court stressing the BNI had every right to seize Mr Osei-Adjei’s passport.The Appeals Court Wednesday adjourned the case indefinitely because the A-G’s office said it was yet to get a copy of the court ruling last month to enable it to file an appropriate defense.Lawyer for former Foreign Affairs Minister, Godfred Odame told Joy News his client is worried.“Each passing day the breach of his fundamental human right is occasioned,” Lawyer Odame told Joy News’ Sammy Darko.Meanwhile there was no show in court today in the case between the State and the CEO of Exopa Modeling Agency, Ibrahim Sima.The Clerk of the court explained the trial could not come off because the trial judge, Justice Charles Quist, was not available.One of the counsel for Mr. Sima, Mr James Agalga, said the court was unnecessarily infringing on their client’s rights with the frequent adjournments.Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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