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SRI LANKA: Officers of the Kalutara South Police Station beat a man’s testicles with a wooden mallet

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Statement : Within a few moments the police arrived and Kumara was arrested by a police team consisting of three officers commanded by the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Crime Branch of the Kalutara South Police Station. Following his arrest he was placed in a jeep and made to sit on the floor in the rear. As it moved off the OIC started to beat Kumara with a stick cut from a cinnamon tree. He was driven to the police station where he was taken to the crime branch. Read More...

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Torture is endemic in Sri Lanka is it practiced at every police station and detention centre including those kept under the Terrorism Investigating Unit. Torture is the mode by which crimes are investigated and this implies even investigations into many offences. Torture is often used to implicate innocent people particularly from low income backgrounds in cases where the police have filed to find the actual culprits in these cases. Torture is often accompanied with the filing of fabrication of charges.

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