Stop-Torture-Report

“In every letter my mum has mentioned that the CID have gone to the
house and she said that they come quite often looking for me. One time
when they came they showed a photo of me at a demonstration in London
in 2013 with the LTTE flag. I was participating in the demonstration. I don’t
know where they took the photo from but they showed it to my mum. My
mother told them it was me. Another time the CID went to the house with
a photograph of me at the Heroes Day demonstration in London on 27
November 2013. They showed this photograph to my father. After he had
seen it he said it was me.”
Witness 31
“They were saying that I
escaped from the country
and I am involved in diaspora
activities and they have the
proof of me participating in
demonstrations. They showed
my parents some photographs
taken off the Internet. My
parents recognised me. After
this incident took place they
relocated. I don’t know where
they are now.”
Witness 19
“He said ‘until we get the truth from
you, you will be tortured’. I said ‘no,
I was not with the LTTE’. He said I
was and they had evidence I had
been in XXX, that I had attended
Heroes Day celebrations, that they
had photographs.”
Witness 29
“They put me on my stomach on the floor. One of them took his heavy
shoes and placed them on the back of my neck and pushed my face into
the floor. They wanted me to look at a picture of me and some strangers at
a protest that I had attended in the UK. I could not see the picture as my
face was being ground into the floor. One on them squatted down and put
the picture where I could see it. It indeed was a picture of me as they said. I
admitted that but they kept demanding the names of the others. I did not
know them and they did not believe me so they kept torturing me.”
Witness 33
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