A pregnant Ghanaian woman and her young son have been held at Washington Dulles International Airport for more than a week, with the pair being held in a windowless detention cell despite serious health concerns, according to lawyers.Annabella Gyasi, 38, arrived at Dulles Airport last Tuesday with her four-year-old son after traveling from Ghana for a medical appointment in Ohio. According to an emergency court petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia, the boy was born with deformed hands and was scheduled to be evaluated at Akron Children’s Hospital on May 30 to determine whether he is now old enough for surgery.Instead of boarding their connecting flight, Gyasi and his son were detained by US Customs and Border Protection officers.The couple first traveled to the US in 2024 for treatment for the child, but later returned to Ghana after doctors advised he was still too young for surgery.Gyasi is more than four months pregnant and told immigration officials she feared returning to Ghana because of the harassment she and her son faced. His lawyers say that statement led to his detention.“Ms. Gyasi traveled to the United States legally to get the medical care she needed for her son, but the illegal detention and inhumane treatment she is experiencing at Dulles is putting her son’s health at risk as well as her own,” Sophia Gregg, senior counsel for immigrants’ rights at the ACLU of Virginia, said in a statement.Legal filings allege Gyasi has been hospitalized twice since arriving in the US due to pregnancy-related complications, including vaginal bleeding and dizziness. Despite receiving treatment, he was returned to the airport detention facility after both hospital visits. Doctors raised concerns that she was not eating enough and experiencing stress while in custody. They also allege that repeated requests for additional food for both mother and child were refused.According to the ACLU, Gyasi ultimately agreed to sign the deportation paperwork because she feared for the health of her unborn child and believed it was the only way to secure adequate food. His legal team later informed the authorities that the decision was taken out of frustration.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rejected the allegations of abuse.“These allegations are false,” the department said in a statement.He added: “Everyone in CBP custody, including this individual, has access to appropriate care, including medical evaluation by a doctor, medication, and food.”Immigration officials argued that Gyasi could not use a tourist visa to enter the country because she had said under oath that she wanted to seek asylum and did not plan to return to Ghana.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday flagged the “worrying trend” of women misusing laws on dowry harassment, domestic violence and POCSO by filing frivolous and vexatious complaints against husbands and in-laws. The court said that the genuine cases are being blurred and obscured due to the “huge” number of false cases filed by the spouses as a way of “arm twisting” to reach a more attractive settlement.A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said that nowadays when a relationship turns sour, a “marital bouquet” is presented against the estranged husband and wife.“This set of cases often involves spurious and hollow allegations and false claims of harassment, cruelty and marital difficulties, often bearing little or no substance and generally not supported by any material or other documentary evidence,” the bench said.The Supreme Court said, “We also take judicial cognizance of the fact that the courts of law are being misused and the burden of such vague and vexatious litigation between spouses is increasing.”The bench said that there are many cases where women are actually looking for relief from the acts of their spouses and the onus is on the courts to separate the wheat from the chaff. It added that care should be taken to ensure that the rights and liberties of innocent parties are not trampled upon or arbitrarily taken away by dishonest and baseless litigation.“A recent trend in this regard is when the wife resorts to filing false complaints under the POCSO Act, alleging that the husband has committed undesirable acts of a sexual nature against the minor daughter. At the center of such a suit is a child who is often used by his mother against his father, against his will and wishes, to make false and vexatious complaints against his father… out of revenge or a high monetary settlement As a tactic of arm twisting to get by or simply to annoy.” Said.The court passed the order quashing criminal proceedings under POCSO filed by a girl against her father, uncle and other family members. The court said there was no evidence to prove the allegations and the girl was taught by her mother.“Courts have to exercise utmost restraint while considering such suits and criminal proceedings as any missteps and excesses can have a cascading effect on the mental and physical health of the parties involved and the sanctity of the institution of marriage.”

Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath On Friday, it issued a warning to the mafia and criminals that anyone who tries to disrupt religious events like Ramleela, Yagya Katha, Janmashtami, Ram Navami, Shivratri or Rakshabandhan will “meet the same fate as Ravana and Kansa”.Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of 114 development projects worth over Rs 392 crore. Gandhi Maidan CM said in Mau that law and order will remain fine Uttar Pradesh There has been a lot of improvement in his government.Yogi said, “Now no mafia or criminal has the courage to create disturbance during festivals. No mafia can roam around in an open jeep waving a pistol and threaten any Hindu.”He further said that anyone who threatens the safety of daughters or traders will ultimately have to face ‘Yamraj’. Describing Mau as the land of revolutionaries, the Chief Minister paid tribute to litterateur Shyam Narayan Pandey, social reformer Swami Sahajanand Saraswati and former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai, who, he said, gave a new identity to Mau.“When good people are elected, good governance comes. But when wrong people are elected, security is compromised, money meant for public development is looted, the safety of daughters and businessmen is at risk and the youth face an identity crisis,” he said.The CM alleged that before 2017, UP was dominated by poor law and order, communal unrest and mafia. Referring to the riots that took place during the Bharat Milap program in Mau in 2005, he claimed that the mafia, under political patronage, had disrupted Ramlila events and targeted innocent Hindus.Without naming the Samajwadi Party, Yogi alleged that previous governments remained silent against criminals and failed to provide security to the public.CM said that the country has seen change Narendra Modi Became PM in 2014. He said Modi believes that governments should focus on four sections – the poor, youth, women and farmers – and added that welfare schemes launched by the Center are being effectively implemented in BJP-ruled states.Yogi said that the state government is working to provide housing, drinking water, roads, bridges and flood protection to every poor citizen. He said tourism infrastructure, power projects and employment opportunities are also being expanded across the state.Claiming that development funds are now reaching the beneficiaries directly, the CM said encroachment on the land of poor people will not be tolerated. “People know that bulldozers will demolish encroachments and the seized properties will be used to build houses for the poor,” he said.Referring to the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya and the Kashi Vishwanath Dham corridor, Yogi said public support and voting contributed to these developments as well as better law and order in the state.The CM also announced that proposals have been invited for the expansion of Ghosi sugar mill and said that a medical college is being developed in Mau under the PPP model.Crediting local public representatives for the development of the district, Yogi assured that the “double engine government” will continue to support Mau with funds for development projects.