A Tunisian hardens “inhuman conditions” within the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles after the American immigration authorities arrested him this month, his family said.
Rami Othmane took place on July 13 while going to the grocery store. His wife, Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, said the agents blocked Othmane’s car and did not identify or have no mandate before held him.
Alrashid, chief of medical staff at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, was on FaceTime with her husband during the incident. The couple got married on March 5, 2024 and filed a petition i-130 last month to qualify their status as a relationship to obtain the Orthmane green card.
Alrashid said Othmane, whose Instagram account says he is a singer And the music producer was legally in the country, adding that he suffers from chronic pain and an untreated tumor.
Family photography of Dr. Wafaa Alrashid and Rami Othmane.
(Dr. Eligible Alrashid)
Since his arrest, Othmane has been kept in the federal building – sleeping on a cold soil without bedding, has no power in hygiene or intimacy, said his wife.
“It is not only a question of immigration – it is a human rights crisis,” Alrashid said in a statement. “My husband was subjected to 12 days of inhuman treatment in a federal building. He is not a criminal. He is a kind and peaceful man with an open petition in immigration. ”
Alrashid said In a post on Instagram That the conditions are not habitable, the addition of prisoners is fed at random moments and should share open toilets.
Friday, the National Day Worker Organizing Network, a defense group based in Pasadena, organized a protest vigil Apart from the federal detention center in downtown, known as B-18, to demand the release of Othmane.
“Like all immigrants – like all human beings – he deserves to be dealt with with decency and respect and to receive regular law procedure. It seems that these fundamental rights are cruelly refused,” the organization said in a statement. “We demand the end of the campaign without law of raids and arrests which led to raw injustices such as the imprisonment of our friend Rami, and so many others.”
