The death of a Pakistani migrant in an Athens police station sparks outrage”

On September 21 at the Agios Panteleimonas police station in central Athens, Muhammad Kamran Ashiq, 37, a Pakistani migrant who had lived in Greece for 20 years, was found dead. Quickly, images of the naked man, covered in bruises and welts, were published in the press and on social media, sparking outrage across the country. The left-wing daily Efsyn claimed that he had been “tortured to death” by the police after being shuffled for several days between five different police stations in the Greek capital, without his family or lawyer being informed
The police in a statement said Asik had been detained on September 18 after trying to break into a block of flats in the Athens district of Agios Panteleimon after pursuing a woman, and that he was already injured at the time and intoxicated.Neos Kosmos