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Maldives: Detainee Beaten Unco
Police knocked out several teeth of a 39-year-old detainee whilst beating him “from evening to sunrise” at the Atolhuvehi detention centre in the capital, Malé, according to family members, and only offered him hospital treatment four days after the injury took place.
Police say Yousef Naeem bit a police officer during his detention, and have now published photos of the injury on their website, one week after the incident.
But according to relatives, Yousef says the bite was inflicted in self-defence as the police officer tried to strangle him, although the detainee added it ... Read more
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05 February 2008
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FBI joins investigation into f
The FBI's Civil Rights Office is looking into the alleged beating of at least 20 people inside a Puerto Rican social club last month by Philadelphia police officers responding to a disturbance call, officials indicated yesterday.
Local authorities opened an internal investigation last week into the incident at the Aces Borincaños Dance Club in Kensington, but Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said yesterday that the FBI was also on the case.
"We're still at it," said Ramsey. "I know the FBI has come in, and they're going to look over it as well. We got it out there because it's a very serious case with very serious allegations. We're going to try to get it done as fast as we can to let the public know what's going on."
Ramsey, who called the case "troubling," said that he did not ask the FBI to intervene, but that he welcomed the help in the department's first major internal investigation of alleged officer misconduct on his watch.
He said the FBI apparently was alerted with a phone call.
Special Agent Thomas Perzichilli confirmed last night that a "preliminary inquiry" had been opened. Because the matter is ongoing, Perzichilli said, he could not comment further.
The Jan. 26 incident began when a fight broke out about 11:30 p.m. inside the club at 2120 N. Front St., where a girl's 15th birthday was being celebrated by her family.
According to police, the scuffle spilled outside, and police were flagged down. Officers called for backup when they could not control the crowd.
Police attempted to get the crowd back into the club, and it was inside that the alleged assaults with police batons occurred.
At least 50 officers may have been at the scene, authorities said.
An unidentified man alleged that he was struck in the head with a police baton and required staples from the back to the front of his head to close the wound. Another man, Robert Molina, 18, of North Philadelphia, was arrested on charges of punching a sergeant, authorities said.
A set of photographs corroborated the injuries, and cell phone video may exist, police said.
Authorities have asked anyone with information about the incident to come forward.
When police held a news conference to announce the allegations last week, it represented a major shift in procedure and sent a message that Ramsey was taking a strong stand on investigating allegations of police misconduct.
When he announced the investigation, Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross, head of the Internal Affairs Bureau, said it was "kind of inconceivable" that officers at the scene did not arrest anyone else or submit required reports on the use of force if they needed to use their batons.
Police are prohibited from hitting a person in the head with a baton.
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