![]() The officers had aroused suspicion by volunteering to patrol at certain times, together.Īuthorities say the offices facilitated at least 12 border crossings, collaborating with four traffickers of undetermined nationality who operated from Turkiye.Īuthorities allege that the accused officers took a cut from the money the traffickers received from the migrants to take them across the border. They also listened into their phone conversations, whose transcripts run into over 2,000 pages. The five officers had been testifying before an examining magistrate since Saturday morning at the border town of Orestiada, in northeastern Greece.Īgents from the internal affairs division of the Greek police had been monitoring the five officers, who serve in a special border guard unit, since October 2022. THESSALONIKI, Greece: Five police officers accused of cooperating with human traffickers to facilitate the entry of at least 100 migrants into Greece are being held in custody pending trial. The case has again highlighted the #MeToo movement in India, which picked up pace in 2018 when a spate of actresses and writers flooded social media with allegations of sexual harassment and assault. “Our fight for justice seems like it has been forever because the wheels of justice have moved very slowly,” Phogat wrote in The Indian Express newspaper Tuesday. The women returned to their protest in April and have said they will not move until Singh is arrested. Singh continues to head the federation and no report has been released in the months since. ![]() He also said a committee would be set up to investigate the allegations and a report will be released in four weeks. ![]() India’s Supreme Court has also acknowledged that the case involves “serious allegations of sexual harassment,” but it has been met with silence from the ruling party leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Īfter their initial protest in January, Indian Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur asked the president of the federation to step aside and help in carrying out the probe. Indian police are investigating the allegations of sexual harassment against Singh, and he has been questioned in the case. ![]() Vinesh Phogat, who has won wrestling medals at the world championships, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, claimed in January that several coaches have exploited female wrestlers at the behest of the WFI president. Singh has denied the accusations and called the protests “politically motivated” by the opposition Congress party. They accused Singh, a 66-year-old powerful lawmaker representing the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, of sexually harassing seven young female wrestlers. ![]() Most of the Indian wrestlers come from the northern agricultural states of Haryana and Punjab. The protests have grown with many members of opposition parties and farmer unions taking up the wrestlers’ cause. Two Olympics medalists, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, are part of the protests and have threatened to hand back their medals if no action is taken against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The protesters have been staging a protest in the center of New Delhi for nearly a month, amid a brutal heat wave, while foregoing their training schedules. A strong presence of police accompanied them on the marching route. NEW DELHI: India’s top female wrestlers led a candlelight march of nearly 1,000 protesters in the capital on Tuesday demanding the resignation and arrest of the president of the wrestling federation for allegedly sexually harassing young athletes, one of whom was a minor.Ĭarrying India’s national flag, they marched to India Gate, a monument close to the country’s parliament building. ![]()
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