Quellenangabe:
Police Brutality in Bulgarian Detention Center (vom 20.10.2012),
URL: http://no-racism.net/article/4218/,
besucht am 21.12.2024
[20. Oct 2012]
On the 16th of October 2012, eight Syrian asylum-seekers were brutally beaten by the police in the detention center for foreigners in the city of Lyubimets, close to the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
The same day, one of the detainees attempted to talk to the guards in the prison in order to receive information about his request to be sent back to Turkey. The prison guards responded with violence.
After his fellow detainees tried to stop the conflict, they were immediately subjected to a brutal beating. All together, eight people were brutally beaten by the police with batons. Each one of them was beaten by three police men. After the police attack, the asylum-seekers were placed in solitary confinement in the prison, where they remain to this day. There is no information about their health condition, as nobody is allowed to speak with them. The only information known is that one of the victims has a broken arm.
Demands of those detained: