Tag: torture
laws like emergency regulations torture the security forces and the police | Attorney Prabodha Rathnayake
Because it can produce another offender, another person who makes mistakes and also an individual with hateful feels.| Joseph Stalin
it is a fact that the police, not only the the public, but even the judiciary believe that the truth can be found through torture & torture| Visakesa Chandrasekaram
OFFICE FOR REPARATIONS ACT, No. 34 OF 2018 ( Sinhala, English, Tamil,)
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OFFICE FOR REPARATIONS; TO IDENTIFY AGGRIEVED PERSONS ELIGIBLE FOR REPARATIONS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROVISION OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE REPARATIONS TO SUCH PERSONS; TO REPEAL THE REHABILITATION OF PERSONS, PROPERTIES AND INDUSTRIES AUTHORITY ACT, NO. 29 OF 1987 ANDTOPROVIDE FORALLMATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO. WHEREAS the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka recognizes the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable human rights of all Sri Lankans and the State’s obligation to respect, secure and advance these…
Read MoreA Snapshot of the Criminal Justice System: Building a Picture Through Sexual Violence Cases in the Court of Appeal 2018 by Shenali De Silva and supported publication
The disparity in sentences illustrated a lack of uniformity and consistency in judges’ approaches to sentencing sexual violence offending. The non-adherence to statutory minimum sentences and ordering suspended sentences compounded the lack of consistency in sentencing. The existence, and extent, of sentencing disparities alerts to larger issues around the exercise of judicial discretion and the need for sentencing guidelines and other parameters to ensure consistency, fairness, and to minimise arbitrariness in judicial decision-making. Disparity in judicial decision-making, including non-observance of legislative constraints, indicates the exercise of judicial discretion is an…
Read Moreexperience in walikada prison | Kasun Pussewela Young Journalist
Jayasanka’s story | based on a true story
SUPPORTING SURVIVORS OF MALE SEXUAL VIOLENCE Report 2016 Supported by a grant from the “Open Society Foundations”
The ongoing researches in Sri Lanka on torture and torture related matters has to be looked into in various angles and should not be repeated by any chance. At the same the output of the research has to be reached to the targeted audience. The awareness among general public on this perspective on torture has to be built up in the future and the endeavor has to be done on this regard in different angle. The evidence based advocacy has to be the approach. specially in this research has been…
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