Urgent Appeal Case : Kopiya Waththage Don Chaminda Priyantha Kumara was accused of having stolen a mobile phone and arrested by officers of the Kalutara South Police Station. After severely beating him and forcing him to sign a statement which he was not permitted to read they implicated him in further unsolved cases. He was taken to the Additional Magistrate of Kalutara who remanded him without even seeing him as Kumara was forced to wait outside his chambers. Upon his arrival at the Remand Prison of Kalutara he fell unconscious and was transferred to the prison hospital. He was eventually released on surety bail and has to appear before the Magistrate of Kalutara on 13 September. Read More...

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