In the agency’s confidential files was a jail video showing Mr. Bah face down in the medical unit, hands cuffed behind his back, just before medical personnel sent him to a disciplinary cell. The tape shows him crying out repeatedly in his native Fulani, “Help, they are killing me!” —Nina Bernstein, “Officials Obscured Truth of Migrant Deaths in Jail,” New York Times, January 10, 2010.

