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HRB suggests incident not isolated but result of predatory culture; Immigration Dept says matter was investigated
“Someone has to have the courage to bring it to an end”
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Human Rights Bahamas (HRB) yesterday called for the immediate removal of all male officers from the Department of Immigration’s “safe house” and demanded a full investigation into claims of sexual assault of detainees at the facility.
The call follows recent allegations by a 27-year-old Surinamese woman that she was drugged and raped by an immigration officer.
The allegations were outlined in a writ filed in the Supreme Court on May 11, which claimed the woman was unlawfully arrested, falsely imprisoned, assaulted, battered, drugged, sexually assaulted, raped, sodomized and deprived of her constitutional rights. ....

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