Sunday, 11 May 2025
Killing of 27 prisoners at Welikada in 2012: CPRP lodge complaint with UN Special Rapporteur

Killing of 27 prisoners at Welikada in 2012: CPRP lodge complaint with UN Special Rapporteur

The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP), in a complaint to United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions' office in Geneva has requested that an investigation be launched into the killing of 27 inmates of the Welikada Prison on November 2012, by armed forces.

The CPRP requested the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions to take up the matter with the Sri Lankan government.

CPRP President, Attorney-at-law Senaka Perera said in the complaint that the killings were committed with impunity and that no arrest or prosecutions had followed in the three years since.

The CPRP Chairman further complained that the findings from the domestic inquiry has not been published and that there had been no relief provided to families of those killed or those injured.

(Lakmal Sooriyagoda – dailynews.lk)

 

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