On the 3rd June 2002 Gerard Perera of Makewita ,Wattala, was taken into custody and tortured. In terms of Act No22 of 1994 a law incorporating the Convention against Torture and Cruel and Inhuman Treatment Act, Legal Department indicted seven Police Officers .in Negombo High Courts . Case No.326/2003. On the 21st of November 2004, …
Suspects in Gerard Mervyn Perera’s Torture Case acquitted & discharged Read More »
Addassuriyage Don Anil Shyama,14 year old school boy from Pattaduwana,Minuwangoda, taken into custody ,kept in the Police Station for four days tortured and fabricated charges . This boy’s father is a labourer, and his mother has left them. On the night of 1st March 2008, Minuwnagoda Police ,arrested Anil,tortured into confessing to a robbery which …
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The Supreme court of Srilanka has granted permission to proceed with a human rights case filed by Mr.Sugath Nishantha Claiming his fundamental rights were violated by the torture by Police officers of Negombo. The case was filled and was represented by Mr. J. C. Weliamuna, Attorney at Law. This case was filed against some Police …
L.M.Beatrice the only witness in the murder case of Chamila Dissanayake ,who had been raped , strangled and pushed out of the 6th floor of the new wing of the Negombo hospital. regains her job. . Beatrice a mother of four children ,attached to a Private Janitorial Service ,earns Rs.285/= per day. was dismissed ,after …
On the 28th of February 2008, at about 11.30 in the night an armed gang in a white van without number plates has abducted 48 year old Thamby Marikar Fais a father of two children. According to his wife ,while they were sleeping some one had shouted by her husband’s name ,when inquired they said …
The high court judge, Mrs. J.M.T.M.P.U. Tennakone announced on last 17th , that the order on the Police torture case of Mr Gerard Mervin Perera’s, father of three children who lived in Makevita, against the police officers of Wattala, including Sub Inspector, Makavitage Suresh Perera and 7 other police officers, will be delivered on coming …
The order on Mr. Gerard Mervin’s Police torture case on 27th March Read More »
On the 3rd of February 2008, Mr.Rasika N.Muthumala,Computer Operator, an employee at Kataragama District Office,had assaulted and broken the arm of 34 year old Mrs.Ediriweera Jayasekara Kurudu Patabadige Thanuja Lakshmi,who is residing in a house belonging to Kataragama,Gam Udawa Housing Development Authority. Victim’s husband an employee attached to Housing Development Authority is working in Amparai. …
When Gerard Mervyn Perera’s murder case, bearing, H.C.445/2005 was taken up at Negombo High Courts on the 25th of January, the 7th witness was charged for giving false evidence, and an order was given to send him to remand prison. He was bailed out on a bond of Rupees Ten Thousand and two personal bonds …
The Murder at the Negombo GeneralHospital by a Doctor,which made a big uproar in Sri Lanka Medical Profession as well as the whole country, is getting cooler and cooler. The employee who is the one and only witness has been harassed and thrown out of employment. Doctors threatened to Strike unless she was sacked. This …
Blocking the witnesses against suspected Doctor.Is it a step to protect the accused.? Read More »
It has been reported that , during the past few months , certain Police Inspectors and some officers attached to the Sri Lankan Police Service,have assaulted some Citizens ,in some parts of the Island, inhumanely,to the extent of breaking teeth. Out of these there are two significant cases details of which are given below. On …
On the 20th of January 2008, Inspector and some officers attached to Suriyawewa Police.took four boys aged 16 years and a young man to Police custody without any reason assaulted them mercilessly with S-lon pipes and bottles , and had filed false cases. Victims: Abeysekara Arachchilage Umesh Chaturanga ,Senarath Ratnayake,Nuwan Sanjeewa,K.G.Dinesh Madushan ,G.K.Lahiru Lakmal, all …
This witness, a neighbor of the deceased, was named the seventh witness of the State by the Attorney General’s Department, after he did give very valuable information about the vehicle which was suspected, involved in this murder. But after the cross examination of this witness by the council for the accused, the deputy solicitor general, …
