“They beat me without saying anything for six months” – Moshiur Rahman

Moshiur Rahman flinches in pain as he walks with a limp to the table to have tea with his wife and young son in their apartment in east London.

The pain in his leg joints reminds him every day of the abuse he says he went through because of his connection to the main opposition party in Bangladesh.

Mr Rahman moved from the capital city of Bangladesh, Dhaka, to Barking. He said he was grabbed at an airport and hurt while on a short trip to his home country in 2015.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangladesh strongly said it did not have any part in cracking down on any party members.

Mr Rahman says he was blindfolded and tied up for days, hung from a ceiling, and sometimes attacked and threatened with being killed in a place he didn’t know.

He said he had been linked to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for many years, but now it’s over.

“They hit me all over my body for six months without saying anything,” he says.

“The pain was too much to handle. ” I thought they would catch me and harm me. All I could think about was that my family will never know that I died.

He had to stay in Bangladesh until 2022 because of strict rules. Finally, he was able to go to London to be with his family after his wife got permission to stay there.

He can’t work because he is in too much pain.

The media has obtained papers from his local health trust that explain the impact on his mental and physical health from the abuse he endured.

Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told media that they strongly disagree with claims of violence, torture, or disappearances. They also said they looked into allegations of cracking down on political party members.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who became the leader in 2009, is now running for a fourth term in office. She is the aunt of Tulip Siddiq, who is a member of parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn.

Some people from London’s Bangladeshi community, the largest in the UK, have joined protests against the government in the city before the elections on January 7th.

The protests have been about the government of Ms Hasina being accused of scaring and controlling people. This is because the leader of BNP, Khaleda Zia, has been put in jail for reasons that are not agreed upon, and there has been recent trouble in the country.

Ms Hasina says that the BNP and its friends are responsible for the trouble and violence.

Ms Hasina’s ruling party, the Awami League, is expected to win the election for the fourth time because the other major parties are not participating and their leaders are in jail.

Bangladesh’s Foreign Affairs Ministry told media that it is fully committed to having elections that are free, fair, and transparent.