Mob riots over Ghanas sex-tape flogging arrests

A mob has besieged a police station in northern Ghana trying to free three people arrested for the public flogging of two teenagers accused of recording a sex tape and posting it online.

The rioters pelted the station in Wa, in Upper West region, with stones and set tyres ablaze. Officers managed to contain the situation and 25 people have subsequently been arrested over the unrest.

There was been widespread condemnation of Tuesday's flogging of the couple at the palace of a traditional leader.

Video recordings of the punishment show the two young people tied to a pole being flogged. They are surrounded by a crowd - many filming on their mobile phones.

It has been widely condemned as dehumanising and degrading

The traditional chief in Wa, who was not at the palace at the time of the flogging, has also condemned it as a “barbaric act”.