The Is’ to the 10th respondents were police officers attached to the Police Guard Room, Boralesgam uw a w hich com es u n d er the M aharagam a Police Station. On 04. 03. 1994, the petitioner w as arrested by the 1st and 2nd respondents for a traffic offence and taken to the Police G uard Room, Boralesgam uwa after using m uch force on him. W hilst in police custody, the 1st, 2nd, 4lh and 5th respondents assau lted him. He was assau lted with a rubber…
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FAIZ V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND OTHERS SC APPLICATION NO. 89/91
On 26 April 1991 about 9.30 a.m. the petitioner along with 4 game guards had arrested several persons who had been detected illicitly felling timber in the Minneriya – Giritale Native Reserve and taken into custody, a hand tractor and some carts loaded with logged timber and was bringing them along when the 6th respondent C. S. Sooriyaratchi, a Member of Parliament for the Polonnaruwa District came travelling in a jeep and intercepted the petitioner at a place called Deke Ela and wanted the men released. The petitioner said he…
Read MoreConvention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984.
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984. Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984 entry into force 26 June 1987, in accordance with article 27 (1). Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Recognizing that those rights derive from the inherent…
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