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Last year, Rafiq was recovered to person been the unfortunate of radical harassment and bullying astatine YorkshireFormer Yorkshire spinner Azeem Rafiq says "a never-ending, co-ordinated run of lies" has "caused superior risk" to his family's information aft caller allegations were made against him.
Rafiq, 31, has been accused of anti-Semitism, homophobia and abdominous shaming children by erstwhile team-mates and officials, reports the Daily Mail.
In a statement, helium said the claims were "categorically untrue".
On Thursday, Rafiq said helium plans to determination abroad to support his family.
Last year, helium was recovered to person been the unfortunate of radical harassment and bullying astatine Yorkshire. He told MPs that English cricket was "institutionally" racist, sparking the ungraded that has dogged English cricket for overmuch of the past 2 years.
His grounds led to changes successful Yorkshire's leadership, Headingly being temporarily stripped of hosting planetary matches, and reprimands for respective existent and erstwhile players and coaches.
It besides led to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) putting unneurotic a 12-point program to tackle racism successful the game.
Responding to the latest allegations against him, helium said: "I knew arsenic a whistleblower I would travel nether attack.
"What I did not expect was a never-ending, co-ordinated run of lies, which has caused superior hazard to maine and my family's safety.
"I person been vindicated implicit and implicit again, and volition not beryllium intimidated by those who question to soundlessness me."
Earlier this week, Rafiq was among 5 existent and erstwhile players reprimanded by the England and Wales Cricket Board for humanities societal media posts of a racist nature.
He has previously apologised for a Facebook speech from 2011 containing anti-Semitic messages.
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