He was even disqualified from one intermediate sprint for what was deemed an illegal push.
Illegal push backs from Greece and Italy have been widely reported by human rights groups.
A UN High Commissioner for Refugees source said the organisation could not comment on Farouk's story or illegal push-backs by Greek police in general.
The difference, in soccer, between normal contact in the box and the real illegal push — like that between the normal hand chucking and bouncing in American football and true pass interference — is delicate and always arguable, or at least always argued.
While Athens has denied allegations that the boat was being towed to Turkey – arguing that radar records show it was being tugged to the Greek island of Farmakonisi when the tragedy occurred – refugees insist they were the victims of an illegal "push-back" operation of the kind frequently indulged in by authorities to keep human cargo at bay.
These failures include illegal push-backs of migrants at the Turkish border, the puncturing of boats in the Aegean Sea, deplorable conditions of detention, police brutality, and various legal and administrative tricks to keep asylum seekers from lodging a claim, all of which Human Rights Watch exhaustively documented in two reports published late last year.
The Northern Irishman claimed Cao failed to declare an illegal push shot during a 10-6 first-round defeat.
Allen lost 10-6 to Cao Yupeng of China in round one of the World Championship and then alleged that his opponent failed to declare an illegal push shot.
The Antrim player, who admits he was "completely outplayed" by the world number 81, claimed Cao failed to declare an illegal push shot when leading 5-4, although no foul was given by referee Paul Collier. "I'm disgusted.
The world number eight, 26, was fined £10,000 and given a three-month suspended ban after his 10-6 defeat in the first round at the Crucible to Cao where he accused his opponent of dishonesty after failing to declare an illegal push shot.
