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Man Denied Asylum Returns to Asia

A Bangladeshi, who said he tortured people into backing the ruling political party while in the army, had been in the U.S. since 1996.
By Eric Malnic
Times Staff Writer

August 18, 2005

A former Bangladeshi army officer who admitted torturing villagers there is returning to his native land, ending a nearly 10-year battle to remove him from this country, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Wednesday.

While he was not technically deported, Sazzad Ahmed Bipu, 35, was given no choice about leaving, said Robert Bryant, deputy chief counsel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles. Bryant said that if Bipu had not boarded a commercial flight at Los Angeles International Airport late Tuesday, in accordance with a judge's demand that he leave voluntarily, a mandatory "order of departure" would have been issued.

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