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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    read the whole report by usa its totally against to srilanka .
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    National/Racial/Ethnic Minorities There were approximately one million Tamils of Indian origin, the so‑called Hill, Tea Estate, or Indian Tamils, whose ancestors originally were brought to the country in the 19th century to work on plantations. In the past approximately 300,000 of these persons...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    By statute the SLHRC has wide powers and resources and may not be called as a witness in any court of law or be sued for matters relating to its official duties. However, according to many human rights organizations, the SLHRC often was not as effective as it should have been. For example, since...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported in December that there were currently approximately 456,000 IDPs in the north and east. Of these, 312,000 were displaced prior to 2006 by the conflict and the 2004 tsunami, and 208,000 became displaced...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    Internet Freedom In June the government ordered the country's two largest Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict access to TamilNet, a pro‑LTTE news Web site. By year's end access was not restored. The government denied ordering the block. However, media sources reported interviews with...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    Section 2 Respect for Civil Liberties, Including: a. Freedom of Speech and Press The law provides for freedom of speech and of the press. Although the media was generally free to criticize the government, media freedom deteriorated in the conflict-affected north and east, especially in Jaffna...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    . Use of Excessive Force and Other Abuses in Internal Conflicts Government security forces, including progovernment paramilitary groups, and the LTTE used excessive force and committed abuses against civilians, while violating the CFA. The SLMM ceased recording and publicizing CFA violations in...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    Trial Procedures In criminal cases, juries try defendants in public. Defendants are informed of the charges and evidence against them, and they have the right to counsel and the right to appeal. The government provides counsel for indigent persons tried on criminal charges in the High Court and...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    Arrest and Detention Under the law, authorities must inform an arrested person of the reason for arrest and bring that person before a magistrate within 24 hours, but in practice,detained persons generally appeared within a few days before a magistrate. A magistrate may authorize bail or...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    Prison and Detention Center Conditions Prison conditions did not meet international standards due to acute overcrowding and lack of sanitary facilities. Prisons designed for 8,200 inmates held as many as 28,000 prisoners, according to the October assessment by UNSR Nowak. In some cases...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    In May a group of parliamentary security guards abducted a wealthy Muslim businessman from Colombo. They lured him to a Kandy hotel with the promise of a business deal, transported him to a secret safe house in Kandy, and extorted from his family a ransom of $200,000 (22.5 million rupees) before...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    b. Disappearance The Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (SLHRC), reportedly acting on instructions from senior government officials, did not provide statistics on the number of disappearances in the current year, but it reported 345 instances countrywide of politically motivated disappearances...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    In December 2006 President Rajapaksa established another presidential CoI and charged it with investigating 16 high‑profile killings from 2005. In February, in response to international concern over escalating human rights abuses, President Rajapaksa also invited the International Independent...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Section 1 Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom From: a. Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life There were numerous, credible reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings. During the year approximately...
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    usa's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007

    Sri Lanka Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor March 11, 2008 Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty republic with a population of approximately 21 million. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, elected in 2005 and the...
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