"The only crime I have committed is being Asian and having a long beard"
Brothers Mohammed Abdul Kahar and Abul Koyair, London-born but of Bangladeshi origin, were arrested on 2 June in a raid by the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist squad.
During the 0400 BST raid Mr Kahar was shot in the chest - the bullet missed his heart - by a police officer.
The raid was triggered by a tip-off suggesting some sort of chemical bomb was hidden inside Lansdowne Road in Forest Gate, but nothing was found.
The brothers, both sporting the beard - without moustache - popular among many Bengali Muslims, were clearly aggrieved at the way they had been treated.
Despite anger over their treatment they refused to be drawn on whether the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair should resign.
They did say they wanted those who ordered the raid to face justice
Brothers Mohammed Abdul Kahar and Abul Koyair, London-born but of Bangladeshi origin, were arrested on 2 June in a raid by the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist squad.
During the 0400 BST raid Mr Kahar was shot in the chest - the bullet missed his heart - by a police officer.
The raid was triggered by a tip-off suggesting some sort of chemical bomb was hidden inside Lansdowne Road in Forest Gate, but nothing was found.
The brothers, both sporting the beard - without moustache - popular among many Bengali Muslims, were clearly aggrieved at the way they had been treated.
Despite anger over their treatment they refused to be drawn on whether the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair should resign.
They did say they wanted those who ordered the raid to face justice
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