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Vol. 01 - No. 04 August 2002 -- Special report: Torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka   PRESS REPORTS AND PRESS RELEASES ALRC Press Release: ALRC Launches a Special Report on Torture Committed by the Police in Sri Lanka - 2002-10-02 Human rights groups accuses Sri Lankan police of torture - AP - 2002-10-02 Sri Lankan police accused of torture - BBC - 2002-10-02 OMCT Press Release on Special Report on Torture - 2002-10-03 Forum Asia Press Release: New Report Reveals Police Torture in Sri Lanka - 2002-10-02 Rights Body Calls for End to Torture by Sri Lanka's Police Force - 2002-10-03 RELATED STATEMENTS A Comment by Professor Michael C. Davis, Chinese University of Hong Kong - 2002-10-02 A Comment by Dr. Lyal S. Sunga, Faculty of Law - University of Hong Kong - 2002-10-02 Special Report on Torture Committed by the Police in Sri Lanka This publication is also attached as PDF file. In order to view the PDF file, you would have to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader, software, which is free. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, please click here to download. You would have to do it only once. Click here to download the PDF file

Introduction: Torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka - Editorial Board, article 2 Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Act, No. 22 of 1994 Case studies of torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka - Asian Human Rights Commission Trying to understand the police crisis in Sri Lanka* - Basil Fernando Letters to the Minister of Interior - Asian Human Rights Commission Recommendations to address the use of torture by the police in Sri Lanka - Asian Legal Resource Centre Appendix: Preventing torture, in principle and in Sri Lanka [1] - Dwight Newman

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