[Human Rights Watch]
The United Kingdom should suspend deportations of ethnic Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka and immediately review its policies and information about the country’s rights situation used to assess their claims, Human Rights Watch said today. Research by Human Rights Watch has found that some returned Tamil asylum seekers from the United Kingdom have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture upon their return to Sri Lanka.
Tags: arbitrary arrests, asylum tribunals, CID, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, LTTE, medical evidence, Tamil asylum seekers, Tamil deportees, torture, UK Border Agency’s Operational Guidance Note, UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT), United Kingdom, violations of human rights
