torture

laws like emergency regulations torture the security forces and the police | Attorney Prabodha Rathnayake

July 30, 2019March 31, 2021 editor

Because it can produce another offender, another person who makes mistakes and also an individual with hateful feels.| Joseph Stalin

March 30, 2019March 31, 2021 editor

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

March 30, 2019March 31, 2021 editor

OFFICE FOR REPARATIONS ACT, No. 34 OF 2018 ( Sinhala, English, Tamil,)

October 21, 2018April 8, 2021 editor

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…

A 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

April 3, 2018March 30, 2021 Editor

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…

experience in walikada prison | Kasun Pussewela Young Journalist

March 29, 2018March 31, 2021 editor

Jayasanka’s story | based on a true story

August 30, 2016March 30, 2021 editor

SUPPORTING SURVIVORS OF MALE SEXUAL VIOLENCE Report 2016 Supported by a grant from the “Open Society Foundations”

June 26, 2016March 30, 2021 Editor

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…

documentary on Police torture Victims in Sri Lanka

March 30, 2016March 30, 2021 editor

Jayantha Aberathna vs Chief Inspector B.W.C. Dharmaratna and others SC(FR) No. 222/2014

August 31, 2014September 26, 2021 editor

The Petitioner in this case complains that he was arrested on 21.06.2013 by the 1st Respondent who is the Officer-in-Charge of the Police Station, Teldeniya. He was later produced before the Magistrate, Teldeniya as a suspect for stealing eleven pieces of sandalwood from the Magistrate’s Court of Teldeniya. He was a Civil Security Guard attached to Teldeniya Police Station. The Petitioner further complains that after the arrest he was assaulted by the 1st Respondent. Petitioner tries to support the assault launched by the 1st Respondent by his wife’s affidavit marked…