{"id":8082,"date":"2024-04-13T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2024-04-13T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T18:00:10","slug":"bangladeshi-nationals-report-abuse-in-police-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8082","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi nationals report abuse in police hands"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police on Saturday refuted claims of abuse against Bangladeshi nationals, after growing criticism on the way it carried out the raid in Limassol, that led to the death of Anisur Rahman.<\/p>\n
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A text message said to be from one of the 11 Bangladeshi nationals who were living in the fifth-floor apartment of a dangerous building in Limassol\u2019s city centre, was read outside of Limassol CID offices during a protest. \nIt claims officers abused and attacked <\/strong>the Bangladeshi nationals during the raid. \n\u201cWe were all sleeping when some strangers came to our flat and broke the door and entered. Then some of us woke up. \n\u201cWhen we heard the sound of a breaking the door, we were very scared. They said they were from immigration police but we couldn\u2019t identify them because they were in civilian clothes.\u201d \nThe text message continues saying the officers entered the room and attacked them. \u201cThey raised their hands on John and abused us in their language. \n\u201cThey first entered one bedroom and arrested three people. Then the second bedroom was locked, they again broke the door and tried to enter.\u201d \n\u201cWhat was our crime? Why did they treat us like this? And why did we have to lose one brother\u2019s life?<\/strong> \n\u201cWe came to their country and did not fight or do anything bad.\u201d \nThe testimony is diametrically opposed to the version police has been reiterating since Wednesday when Rahman died. \nPolice has stressed two officers knocked on the door and received consent before stepping in to the apartment. \nRahman, 23, jumped out of the fifth-floor apartment window to his death. Another man, aged 22, jumped out of the balcony to escape. He is in serious condition in hospital<\/strong>. \nCriticism began emerging on Friday, amid allegations that up to 15 officers barged in and broke down the door. A complaint has been filed to the independent authority investigating police officers. \nOn Saturday night, the force issued a statement saying that none of the police statements made by any of the Bangladeshi nationals \u201cmake any claims about violating any apartment entrance or allegations of violence.\u201d \nIt reiterated that only two officers went to the raid. \nThe veracity of the police statements made by any of the Bangladeshi nationals have already been called into questions amid allegations the men have had no access to a lawyer<\/strong>. \nSpeaking to the Cyprus Mail a day earlier, lawyer Michalis Paraskevas said every person \u2013 whether they are living in Cyprus legally or illegally \u2013 has a right to a lawyer. \nPeople close to the Bangladeshi nationals said they have had no access to any lawyer, while two are reportedly held in Larnaca and are slated to be deported. \nPolice did not address any of these allegations in its statement. It has said all of the detained men were living in Cyprus illegally. \nNo updates were given over the landlord who reportedly rented out the apartment for \u20ac2,000.<\/p>\nThe apartment building was listed as dangerous was was rented out to 11 people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cAny person who has any different testimony regarding the specific incident, to contact immediately the CID Headquarters on the phone number 22-808094 or the Citizen\u2019s Line, on the phone number 1460.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police refuted claims of abuse against Bangladeshi nationals after a raid in Limassol that led to the death of Anisur Rahman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1521,4093,1418,312,1340,5910,4039,6051,21,4758,3,2692,1257,3210,988,250,3330,156,1795,5373,157,24,1394,4442,3331,5330,184,214,463,6180,4620,1827,2503,380,134,6305],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-1521","tag-abuse","tag-allegations","tag-apartment","tag-arrested","tag-balcony","tag-building","tag-complaint","tag-crime","tag-criticism","tag-cyprus","tag-death","tag-deported","tag-escape","tag-fight","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-hospital","tag-immigration","tag-investigating","tag-larnaca","tag-limassol","tag-man","tag-message","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-police-officers","tag-protest","tag-raid","tag-report","tag-statement","tag-testimony","tag-us","tag-violence","tag-who"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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