SRI LANKA: An innocent man has been detained more than six months without being produced before any court or charged

June 1, 2012

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-093-2012

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Jesuthasan Tennisan Leon (27) has been detained in Boossa Detention Camp for more than six months without being produced before any court by the state authorities. Leon was abducted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2001, a period when many villagers in his location also faced the same fate. Leon was forced to undergo training by the LTTE.

In early 2009 he was able to escape the LTTE and returned to his parents and found employment. However, after his return he was followed by the officers attached to the Terrorist Investigation Department (TID). Later he learned that these officers gone to the Arpico office where he was working. Leon was tortured in custody and has been held in Boossa detention Centre for six months without being produced before a court of law or charged. This case is yet another illustration of the exceptional collapse of the rule of law in the country.

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SRI LANKA: An innocent man has been detained more than six months without being produced before any court or charged