{"id":171350,"date":"2016-12-07T23:39:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=171350"},"modified":"2016-12-10T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:30:31","slug":"un-committee-against-tortures-concluding-observations-on-sri-lanka-full-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/un-committee-against-tortures-concluding-observations-on-sri-lanka-full-text\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Committee Against Torture; Concluding Observations On Sri Lanka &#8211; Full Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Committee against Torture has today urged Sri Lankan government to establish an independent mechanism to investigate allegations of torture and sexual violence in the \u201crehabilitation\u201d programme for 12,169 suspected former cadres.<\/p>\n<p>In delivering its concluding observations the committee said\u00a0that torture was a common practice is Sri Lanka. The Committee also said it was alarmed at the presence of Director of Sri Lanka\u2019s Centre for National Intelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sisira+Mendis&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sisira Mendis<\/span><\/a> in Geneva and \u201cdeeply regrets\u201d that he and the delegation didn\u2019t answer questions raised with him during the session in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/INT_CAT_COC_LKA_25983_E.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":170439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UN Committee Against Torture; 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