- A father-of-two said Hasan Syed ‘openly threatened to rape’ his children and wife
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Women from Bangladeshi communities in the UK say their lives are being ruined by a TikTok troll who makes fun of people’s appearance and threatens to rape and kill them.
Despite reporting the abuse to police in the UK and France as well as social media companies, many have been left feeling suicidal as a result of Hasan Syed.
The Bangladeshi national, who lives in Paris and has thousands of TikTok followers, has tormented people on live streams by making fun of their appearance, even threatening to hurt and rape them, a BBC investigation found.
Many people have felt too afraid to speak out against the troll who steals photographs of people and their personal information and puts them on a ‘green screen’ behind his face in videos.
One woman, who lives in Yorkshire and did not want to be named, said she was targeted by Mr Syed after defending a friend on TikTok who was humiliated by him.
She told the BBC: ‘I felt like the sky had fallen in on me. I was in tears. I could not eat, I struggled to sleep. I felt like I did not want to be here anymore. People were commenting on the post and laughing at me.
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Hasan Syed (pictured) takes people’s photographs and personal information and makes fun of them by putting them on a ‘green screen’ behind his face on videos
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TikTok is said to be an extremely popular social media platform among the UK’s Bangladeshi community
‘I have always struggled with my mental health and I have had intense therapy to get over this but it triggered my PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
‘I felt that all of the hard work I had done to get better went down the drain.’
Another woman named Masuma, who lives in Wales and works in higher education, said Mr Syed threatened to ‘hang her’ because she declined to go on his live stream and later made videos saying she was a ‘sex worker’.
Last year father-of-two Kamrul Islam also said Mr Syed ‘openly threatened to rape’ his children, mother and wife online.
His wife, Rukthan, was seven months pregnant at the time and decided to call the police.
She said: ‘It was very stressful for me. I was crying my eyes out and I felt scared because many of [Syed’s] followers live in the UK,’ his wife said.
‘I love walking and I used to drop my son off at school and go for a stroll. After [his] followers said they were going to attack my family, I became too scared to go out.
‘I can no longer work because of my mental health and I still have sleepless nights.’
Despite reporting it to Staffordshire police, Mr Islam said there was a two-and-a-half month delay before they confirmed his complaint was passed to Interpol.
After being put in touch with English-speaking French solicitor Mathieu Croizet when he contacted the British Embassy in Paris to help with the abuse, there was still a delay with taking the abusive posts down.
Mr Croizet also told the BBC: ‘There is a lot of Islamophobia in France and Kamrul’s surname being Islam could be blocking the case.’
TikTok is a very popular social media platform among the UK’s Bangladeshi community.
A statement from TikTok confirmed the video was removed as it broke community guidelines.
But it still remains to be seen what action will be taken, if any, in the coming months.
MailOnline have contacted Staffordshire Police, TikTok and the ICO for comment.
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