CAT/C/58/D/627/2014 2.7 Upon arrival in Greece, the complainant applied for asylum and a work and residence permit. His request for asylum was denied, but he was granted a temporary work and residence permit, renewable every six months. He stayed in Greece for several years and worked in restaurants in the Omonia and Varkiza districts. In 2012, the Greek authorities informed him that his work and residence permit could not be renewed owing to the economic situation in the country and he was advised to seek the protection of another country in order to avoid being sent back to Bangladesh. With the help of a friend, he travelled to Sweden by train and immediately applied for asylum upon arrival on 6 April 2012. 2.8 On 24 May 2013, the Swedish Migration Board rejected his asylum application. The complainant states that the Board found that he was not credible for the following reasons: his father had stated in a police report that he was an activist in the Bangladeshi Islamic Student Front, whereas the complainant stated he belonged to Jamaat-e-Islami. The complainant was unable to describe his activities in the party in a concrete way. He lacked knowledge of the names of the party’s leaders and made sweeping statements regarding the reason for the incarceration of the party’s leader. He stated at different points that he had and had not contacted the authorities for protection. In the light of evidence indicating that the authorities in Bangladesh do not regularly persecute or harass members of opposition parties, it does not make sense that the complainant did not contact the authorities and did not provide a reason for not doing so. The Migration Board also issued a two-year entry ban for the complainant on the grounds that he had submitted falsified documents to the authorities. 2.9 The complainant maintains that the asylum proceedings in Sweden were flawed. The Migration Board deemed some of the information he had supplied as vague, undetailed and conflictual, but this was either the fault of the interpreter or owing to the inadequacy of the Board administrator’s note-taking. Although the complainant’s former public defender stated to the Migration Board on 9 July 2012 that he had met with the complainant in order to go through the transcript from the interview, they never examined the entire transcript. Rather, the complainant was asked to clarify particular details. The complainant also maintains that he submitted extensive documentation of his need for protection to the Migration Board. After obtaining a report from a Bangladeshi lawyer, the Migration Board concluded that the documents were all falsified. The complainant contends that the documents in question were all sent to him by his family and he had no reason to doubt their authenticity. 2.10 On 19 June 2013, the complainant appealed the negative decision of the Migration Board to the Migration Court. He requested and was assigned a new public counsel, who ordered a proper medical examination, and a disability certificate was submitted with the appeal. The certificate, dated 17 October 2013 and provided by an orthopaedic specialist, stated that the complainant’s skin changes were consistent with burns healed long ago and with bruises and cuts. The skin changes “are all healed and together with the information that they were caused in 2005, it can be assumed that the injuries at that time were very extensive and painful. No physical disabilities remain, but the patient suffers from emotional problems that are consistent with post-traumatic stress syndrome.” Nevertheless, on 7 February 2014, the Migration Court found that there was no well-founded reason to believe that the complainant would face an individual and specific risk of persecution or illtreatment in Bangladesh. However, the Migration Court overturned the two-year re-entry ban imposed by the Migration Board. The complainant sought leave to appeal to the Migration Court on 11 March 2014. On 12 June 2014, the Court rejected his request. 2.11 According to the complainant, since his departure from Bangladesh, his family has received several threats directed against him, the most recent on 1 June 2012. Unknown persons have also visited the family home inquiring about him several times. 3