Chained Bangladeshi man found inside Male house
| DATE: 2007-08-09 | PRINT | Share
According to the President of the Human Rights Commission, Ahmed Saleem, they had received information from members of the public about the man and had found him chained to a tree inside H. Sikkage located behind the Parliament House.
“When we went there and asked the people of the house about it, we found that the man had been shackled to the tree for around 10 days now,” Saleem said. “They also said that it was done on order from the Police. But that is not true.”
Saleem said that the expatriate man had been brought to Male to do construction work by A. M. Constructions and that everyone inside the house where he had been imprisoned were expatriates from Bangladesh. He said that the others inside the house had said that they had imprisoned the man because he was crazy. Saleem said that regardless of who had done it, the Human Rights Commission strongly condemned the act.
“It doesn’t matter if it was a local man or an expatriate; no man should be shackled like that,” Saleem said.
Police has said that they had received information about the incident on Monday but that the case was now being investigated by the Employment Ministry. The Deputy Director of the Employment Ministry, Ahmed Abubakr, said that they were investigating the case.
| DATE: 2007-08-09 | PRINT | Share
MALE, August 8, 2007 (Haveeru News Service) -- A Bangladeshi man who had been shackled in chains and bound to a tree was found inside a house in Male’ on Monday.
According to the President of the Human Rights Commission, Ahmed Saleem, they had received information from members of the public about the man and had found him chained to a tree inside H. Sikkage located behind the Parliament House.
“When we went there and asked the people of the house about it, we found that the man had been shackled to the tree for around 10 days now,” Saleem said. “They also said that it was done on order from the Police. But that is not true.”
Saleem said that the expatriate man had been brought to Male to do construction work by A. M. Constructions and that everyone inside the house where he had been imprisoned were expatriates from Bangladesh. He said that the others inside the house had said that they had imprisoned the man because he was crazy. Saleem said that regardless of who had done it, the Human Rights Commission strongly condemned the act.
“It doesn’t matter if it was a local man or an expatriate; no man should be shackled like that,” Saleem said.
Police has said that they had received information about the incident on Monday but that the case was now being investigated by the Employment Ministry. The Deputy Director of the Employment Ministry, Ahmed Abubakr, said that they were investigating the case.
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