COI Report March 2012 - UK Border Agency - Home Office
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7 MARCH <strong>2012</strong> SRI LANKA<br />
―Thereafter, the officers of police Crime Investigation Division (CID) detained him at an<br />
unknown location, which he believes could be in Wattala.<br />
―While being detained, the suspect said, CID officers hanged him from the legs and<br />
tortured using clubs.<br />
―In his petition suspect Thyagarajah Prabhakaran requests the Court to order the<br />
authorities to release him as he is being detained without being charged for two years<br />
and ten months.<br />
―The Supreme Court noted that the allegations raised in the petition are of very serious<br />
nature.<br />
―After considering his appeal, the Supreme Court ordered the Attorney General to<br />
submit a report on the possibility of releasing the suspect on 08 <strong>March</strong>, or to file charges<br />
against him.‖<br />
8.51 On 19 January <strong>2012</strong> the same source 167 reported that:<br />
―The main suspect in the murder of Sri Lankan Former Foreign Minister Lakshman<br />
Kadirgamar [who was killed in Colombo in August 2005] informed courts that he was<br />
tortured while in police custody to extract a confession.‖<br />
―One policeman beat the suspect's head with poles and his ear drum was burst<br />
following assault by the other, the suspect claimed.<br />
―As a result, he told court that his hearing is partially impaired.<br />
He told the judge that information about his torment has already been conveyed to the<br />
Colombo magistrate and the judicial medical officer.‖<br />
8.52 The website of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regularly reports on<br />
incidents and allegations of torture .The AHRC also produced a document, entitled<br />
Police torture case, Sri Lanka, 1998 - 2011, dated 24 June 2011, providing details of<br />
323 cases of torture related to that period of time.<br />
Extra-judicial killings<br />
8.53 The USSD 2010 report 168 noted that:<br />
―There were reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful<br />
killings, but reliable statistics on such killings by the government or its paramilitary allies<br />
were difficult to obtain because past complainants were killed and families feared<br />
reprisals if they filed complaints. Among these arbitrary and unlawful killings, a number<br />
167 BBC Sinhala, 19 January <strong>2012</strong>, Kadirgamar murder suspect 'tortured'<br />
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/<strong>2012</strong>/01/120119_kadirgamar_torture.shtml date accessed 29<br />
January <strong>2012</strong><br />
168 US State Department 2010 Human Rights <strong>Report</strong>: Sri Lanka (USSD 2010), released on 8 April 2011,<br />
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/sca/154486.htm , date accessed 11 May 2011, Section 1a<br />
The main text of this <strong>COI</strong> <strong>Report</strong> contains the most up to date publicly available information as at 3 February <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Further brief information on recent events and reports has been provided in the Latest News section<br />
to 2 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
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