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Police violence that cannot be hidden on social media!

October 25, 2021November 1, 2021 Editor

The video of a police constable assaulting two youths on a motorcycle in the Eravur area in Batticaloa has been circulating on social media since the 23rd of this month. Following the social media revelations about this police constable who had inhumanly assaulted the youth in public, the Police Department had to arrest him. Despite the arrests and suspensions, police violence has not stopped. But with the advancement of social media today, not only police officers but the entire state as well as the private sector need to think twice…

Prison officials think of inmates with contempt – Attorney-at-Law Senaka Perera

October 21, 2021November 1, 2021 Editor

Senaka Perera, Attorney-at-Law, Chairman of the Committee to Protect the Rights of Prisoners, says that despite the slogan ‘Prisoners are human beings’, law enforcement officials themselves have a low opinion of prisoners / suspects. He said that there are 28 prisons in Sri Lanka and there are about 25,000 suspects and prisoners in them at present and they are not treated as human beings in prisons in any way. He pointed out that although there have been a number of murders in prisons so far, there is still no culprit, citing…

SRI LANKA: A Sister’s 20 Year Long Struggle For Justice For Her Brother Killed By The Police

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Editor

On the universal day for torture victims, this year, a book will be launched by The Right to Life organization working in collaboration with the AHRC on a long standing case, which is continuing in courts, regarding a man who was killed extra-judicially, inside a Police station. The author of the book is Amitha Priyanthi, the younger sister of the deceased. When the death took place after her brother was kept at a police station for five days, she was just a school going girl. However, the shock of this…

වේල්ල වීදියේ හිසසුන් මළකඳ හා පොලිස් ප්‍රචණ්ඩත්වය

March 17, 2021 Editor

විවාහක උප පොලිස් පරීක්ෂකවරයකු තම (අනියම් යයි කියන) පෙම්වතිය මරා, හිස සඟවා, සිරුර ගමන් බෑගයක දමාගෙන කොළඹ නගරයට ගෙනැවිත්, වේල්ල වීදියේ දමා, පළාගොස්, නිවසට පොලිසිය පැමිණෙද්දී, ලියුමක් ලියා තබා, කැලේ පැන, එල්ලී හා වස පානය කර සියදිවි නසාගත්තේය. මෙම කෘර හා කණගාටුදායක සිද්ධියත් සමග අවධානය යොමුවිය යුතු පැතිකඩක් තිබේ. එනම් පොලිස් ප්‍රචණ්ඩත්වයයි. (මුල් ඡායාරූපය 2009 ඔක්තෝබර් මාසයේදී බම්බලපිටිය දුම්රියපොළ අසල සිදුවූ සිද්ධියකි. ඡායාරූපයේ මුහුද පැත්තේ ඉන්නේ මානසික රෝගියෙකි. ඔහු දුම්රියවලට ගල් ගැසූ බව කියවේ. පොලිසිය ඔහු අල්ලාගැනීමට පැමිණිවිට ඔහු මුහුදට පැන්නේය. පොලිසිය පහරදී මෙම මානසික රෝගියා ගිල්වා මරණයට පත්කළේය.) මෙවැනිම…