Posts Tagged ‘Freedom from Torture’
Deported Tamils ‘face torture’ on return to Sri Lanka
[Guardian UK] Up to 50 passengers heading to Sri Lanka on a UK Border Agency forced-removals flight risk being tortured on their return, human rights organisations have warned. [Full Story]
Read MoreSri Lanka ‘still torturing’ Tamils
[Channel 4 News] The UN has already found that evidence of the killing of up to 40,000 civilians amid allegations of serious human rights abuses amounted to “credible allegations” that war crimes had been committed during the last days of the civil war in 2009. [Full Story]
Read MoreCharity hands UN file to back Sri Lankan torture claims
[Guardian UK] A UK charity that is pushing for a halt to deportations to Sri Lanka has handed the UN a file of medical evidence to support allegations that authorities there are continuing to torture opponents. [Full Story]
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