SRI LANKA: Three officers of the Department of Excise severely tortured and laid fabricated charges on an innocent man
Mr. Dewasundaralage Thushara
Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Dewasundaralage Thushar was illegally arrested, detained, brutally tortured and laid with fabricated charges. Thushara has been falsely charged with obstructing officers of the Department of Excise and having illegal liquor. The officers concerned asked Thushara to identify the person who was manufacturing illicit liquor and when he denied any knowledge of this the officer started beating him. He was detained in the Excise Department office in Puttalam where he was tortured and forced to place his fingerprints on cans and bottles of illicit liquor and then write and sign a statement incriminating himself. This case is yet another illustration of the exceptional collapse of the rule of law in the country. Read More...
PHILIPPINES: Tortured political activist writes about the investigation into his arrest, detention and fabrication of charges in jail
Urgent Appeal Update : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is sharing with you a letter, written from prison, by Renante Gamara, a political activist whom police tortured and questioned in the absence of a legal counsel during his arrest on April 3, 2012. In his letter he writes about the investigation by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) into his case in response to the AHRC's appeal. Read More...
SRI LANKA: A man was arrested on suspicion of taking part in a bombing and sentenced to death after a sham trial
Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Krishnaswami Ramachandran was arrested on suspicion of his involvement in the bomb blast at Daladha Maligawa in 1998. He was tortured and the charges were based on the confession he was forced to give under duress. In 2003 he was sentenced to death by the Kandy High Court. Ramachandran states that he was not given a fair trial. He further states that the trial was held in Sinhalese which is not his mother language and due to this he was unable to follow the proceedings. He also vehemently refutes the charges and says that he was convicted and sentenced for a crime he did not commit. Read More...
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