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By\u00a0Frances Harrison<\/a><\/span>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Frances Harrison<\/p><\/div>\n

Among a group of about fifty asylum seekers<\/a><\/span> due to be deported from Britain to Sri Lanka on Thursday afternoon is a young woman who\u2019s already been subjected to sexual abuse<\/a><\/span> in custody and has been declared a suicide risk. Doctors who\u2019ve examined the asylum seeker have declared her unfit to travel because of the risk she will try to kill herself again.<\/p>\n

The woman, who was a student in Britain, says she was detained on a visit to Sri Lanka in 2011 and taken to a police station in the capital. There she describes being beaten, kicked, striped naked, burnt with cigarette butts several times on her thighs and back and having her head put inside a plastic bag full of chilli powder, before being made to sign a statement in a language she couldn\u2019t understand. She says her interrogators wanted information about members of the Tamil diaspora<\/a><\/span> and her brother who had been a member of the Tamil Tiger rebel group<\/a><\/span>, defeated militarily by the Sri Lankan army in 2009.<\/p>\n

Court documents describe this woman as very distressed and tearful, with persistent nightmares. A \u00a0letter from a forensic specialist confirms she has eight burn marks on her body, which she says were made by the lit cigarettes.<\/p>\n

Kulasegaram Geetharthanan of Jein Solicitors, which is representing some of the cases due for return, said among those facing deportation were at least two women and two men who\u2019d been raped<\/a><\/span> as well as another woman who\u2019d suffered sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/span> issued a shocking report detailing seventy-five cases of rape in Sri Lanka \u2013 mostly by the security forces and significant numbers well after the end of the country\u2019s civil war. Since this data was gathered from among asylum seekers, the likelihood is this only represents the tip of the iceberg since most women are unable to flee the country. Among the cases cited \u00a0by Human Rights Watch were two Tamils who\u2019d been deported from Britain and then said they\u2019d been subjected to sexual abuse upon return to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

For more information see\u00a0ch4 blog<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy Still Counting The Dead<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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