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Report submitted to UN suggests there has been no let-up in mistreatment of those linked with Sri Lanka rebel group Tamils during a rally denouncing genocide in Sri Lanka at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland earlier this month. Photograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP The UK continues to deport Tamils seeking political asylum to Sri Lanka, despite strong evidence that the security forces systematically use torture against those suspected of dissident activity five years after the end of the country’s civil war. A new report by the Freedom From Torture advocacy group, based on medical evaluations of victims, found that many were subjected to branding and two thirds of those examined suffered rape or other sexual torture. The report, which has been submitted to the UN’s human rights committee in Geneva, suggests there...

(ARTICLE BY AMNESTY: IN ENGLISH) Artikel in Amnesty International blad hier online te lezen: http://issuu.com/amnestywire/docs/wire_julyaug14/8 IN ENGLISH Het artikel geeft aan dat mensen vaak door hun asieladvocaat hierheen verwezen werden en erg veel baat hebben van dit lotgenotencontact onder begeleiding van deskundigen. In verband met geldwolven die denken geld te kunnen claimen op krantenartikelen die op een blog als deze worden geplaatst maar na meestal een dag voor de krantenlezers aan leeswaardigheid hebben ingeboet terwijl wij vreemdelingenrecht specialisten ze soms wel nog jaren gebruiken om er een kopie van te maken voor een zaak ga ik over tot het plaatsen van alleen het eerste stukje. Ja ik weet het: de kans dat u doorklikt is geringer dan wanneer het hele artikel hier staat en een kopie van het orgineel maken handig kan zijn voor uw zaak. Wilt u zelf wat overnemen van dit weblog. Dat mag. Zet er alleen even een link bij naar het desbetr...

Dit artikel citeert een wetenschappelijk artikel over de werking van het geheugen in stresssituatie en geeft ook aan waarom marteling iemand nog jaren kan beinvloeden. Ik kan me zo voorstellen dat in bepaalde asielzaken dit wellicht kan helpen onderbouwen waarom iemands geheugen hem parten speelt. http://99998271.blogspot.jp/2012/08/torture.html In verband met geldwolven die denken geld te kunnen claimen op krantenartikelen die op een blog als deze worden geplaatst maar na meestal een dag voor de krantenlezers aan leeswaardigheid hebben ingeboet terwijl wij vreemdelingenrecht specialisten ze soms wel nog jaren gebruiken om er een kopie van te maken voor een zaak ga ik over tot het plaatsen van alleen het eerste stukje. Ja ik weet het: de kans dat u doorklikt is geringer dan wanneer het hele artikel hier staat en een kopie van het orgineel maken handig kan zijn voor uw zaak. Wilt u zelf wat overnemen van dit weblog. Dat mag. Zet er alleen even een link bij naar het desbetre...

  Press Release, FOM, 04.09.2013 Bern. Non-government organisations (NGOs) have recently reported isolated cases of Sri Lankan nationals who have been arrested by the Sri Lankan authorities and tortured on return to their home country. The Federal Office for Migration (FOM) has taken fast and comprehensive action to investigate the cases that have been brought to its attention. The FOM has no factual knowledge to date as to whether and to what extent Sri Lankan returnees have been unlawfully treated. The imminent repatriation of Sri Lankan nationals has been suspended until the results of the investigations are known. The FOM does not accept human rights’ violations. During the asylum proceedings, the FOM carefully investigates whether a person is at risk in their home country. However, this investigation requires the asylum applicant to disclose to the Swiss authorities all the relevant facts that may put them in danger. The FOM has knowledge that two...

The UK Border Agency has been ordered to completely halt the removal of Tamils who have been refused asylum, pending an assessment of the risk such individuals face on return to Sri Lanka . The high court decision came on Wednesday, 24 hours before 65 people – mostly Tamil and mostly unsuccessful asylum seekers – were due to be removed on a charter flight to Sri Lanka. The court ruled that it would be wrong to deport them when an immigration tribunal was in the process of updating its country guidance for Sri Lanka. The assessment, designed to assist immigration judges, is not expected until late April or early May. Read the full article in the Guardian here:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/28/border-agency-tamils-sri-lanka?CMP=twt_gu Other reasons were that there was evidence submitted by HRW that tirture occured. And 15 returned failed asylumseekers fled again to the UK and got refugee status because they were tortured. Law blog Klik op +1 als u di...

We are recruiting a Law and Policy Officer to drive forward our work to improve the legal and policy protections for torture survivors in the UK as asylum seekers and refugees through policy and advocacy work, including strategic litigation if necessary, drawing on learning from Freedom from Torture's clinical service provision, research and legal and welfare advice service. Reference number: LPO 1 Location: London Centre, N7 Team: Policy & Advocacy Salary: £34,873 per annum pro rata Contract type: Permanent Days/hrs: 28 hours per week (4 days) Closing date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 17:00 Interview date: 21 November, 2012   For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Sonya Sceats, Policy & Advocacy Manager, on 020 7697 7766 Freedom from Torture is striving to be an equal opportuniti...

Britain is returning Tamil refugees to be tortured in Sri Lanka Human rights groups detail evidence of failed asylum-seekers facing beatings and rape Malar Rajendran is living proof that Britain has sent people to Sri Lanka to be tortured. Today at 3:30pm, a specially chartered Border Agency flight using the call sign PVT030 will take off from an undisclosed London airport and head east towards Colombo. Those on board will include visa over-stayers, a handful of convicted criminals and dozens of terrified, predominantly Tamil refugees who fear they will be horrifically abused when they land. The government maintains that it only ever returns people it knows will be safe from harm and that failed asylum seekers on board those flights will not be ill-treated. But Mrs Rajendran knows those assurances mean little once you land in Colombo. She first fled her homeland in 2001 after she was arrested and beaten following the death of her husband, a low ranking member of the Tamil Ti...

Two chartered flights bound for Sri Lanka are scheduled to take off next week, as evidence of human rights abuses mounts Many Tamils in the UK have sought treatment for torture injuries they received in Sri Lanka, particularly burns. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters The UK is to go ahead with a mass removal of Tamils back to Sri Lanka next week despite mounting evidence from human rights group that many of them could be tortured on their return. At least two and possibly three chartered flights are scheduled to leave the UK from Wednesday carrying an unknown number of Sri Lankan Tamils whose pleas to remain in the UK have been refused. The UK Border Agency (UKBA) refuses to discuss such flights until they have landed. The Home Office says it only removes people who face...

Refugees Tough times for female asylum seekers in the UK Chances of asylum being denied are twice as high for female refugees in the UK than for males, recent research shows. The findings suggest that officials often don't believe the women's stories of rape and torture. Some refugees are forced to pick through others' waste on the street Many asylum-seekers live in 'squatter-like' conditions while waiting for the decision on their claim Many asylum-seekers refuse to have their pictures taken for fear of further persecution According to recent research by the UK-based organization Women for Refugee Women, half of the women seeking asylum in the United Kingdom have experienced torture or rape, but are refused asylum. The research indicates that women may feel too ashamed and traumatized to speak about what has happened to them si...

"He was on the floor, they were kicking and punching him’’ ... above, the family of Sumith and Indika Balapuwaduge. The brothers have been in jail for two years with a trial yet to take place.  Photo: Ben Doherty Sumith Balapuwaduge knew he was being watched, and suspected police would come for him one day. Some months earlier, he had been forcibly returned to Sri Lanka from Australia with his brother Indika, their claims for political asylum having been rejected. Indika never even made it out of Colombo airport and was jailed straight away. So when the police van came and parked on the sandy road outside his home, Sumith came - peaceably, his wife insists - to the front door. "They took him inside this house, and they beat him," his wife Leena tells the  Herald  as she sits on the porch of the brightly-coloured bungalow that was their family home. Incarcerated ... Sumith Balapuwaduge.  Photo: Suhas Samindhu Sathsara "He was on the floor, the...

Legal Advisor Employer: FREEDOM FROM TORTURE Posted: 03 July 2012 Location: Greater London Industry: Charities - Advice  ,  Charities - Advocacy  , Legal  ,  Charities - Policy & research Contract: Permanent Hours: Part Time Salary: £39,339 (pro rata) Full Job Description Visit website (this will open in a new window) Freedom from Torture Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture Freedom from Torture is a human rights organisation and one of the largest torture rehabilitation centres in the world. We are seeking exceptional candidates for permanent roles in our Policy & Advocacy Team in London: Legal Advisor - 4 days per week £39,339 (pro rata) Who we are looking for: an experienced legal advisor with outstanding case work management and communication skills to advise our treatment clients and clinicians on asylum and immigration legal matters arising in particular cases. Application deadline 5pm...

13-09-2010 Tens of thousands of detainees held without trial in Iraq, many of whom were recently transferred from US custody, remain at risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, Amnesty International said in a new report launched today. NEW ORDER, SAME ABUSES: Unlawful detentions and torture in Iraq details thousands of arbitrary detentions, sometimes for several years without charge or trial, severe beatings of detainees, often in secret prisons, to obtain forced confessions, and enforced disappearances. “Iraq’s security forces have been responsible for systematically violating detainees’ rights and they have been permitted to do so with impunity,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s Director for the Middle East and North Africa. “Yet, the US authorities, whose own record on detainees' rights has been so poor, have now handed over thousands of people detained by US forces to face this catalogue of illegality, violence and abuse, abdicating any responsibility ...

The APT envisions a world in which no one is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The APT seeks to achieve this vision through a preventive and cooperative approach. The APT works globally, regionally and nationally with a wide range of partners including State authorities, national institutions and civil society. Closing date: 21 Sep 2010 Location: Gambia (the) - Banjul COMMITTEE FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE IN AFRICA (CPTA) TERMS OF REFERENCE – INTERN Job Title: Intern Organization: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Reports to: Executive Secretary Location: ACHPR Secretariat, Banjul, The Gambia Duration: 12 months renewable, starting soonest Job Description Under the day-to-day guidance of the Senior Legal Officer assisting the Chairperson of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA) of the African Commission on Human and...