K. Palitha Tissa Kumara

A drawing on the spitting incident

• Court Proceedings ~ click here to download the MS Word Document

Photo caption: (Left to Right) Attorney Amila Vithana and senior attorney, Dulindra Weerasuriya, special attorney watching the interest of the victim, and trial observers, Justice H. Suresh, retired High Court Judge, Mumbai, India, and Bijo Francis of AHRC, Hong Kong, outside the Kaluthara High Court on the 26 October 2005

• Supreme Court Judgment

• UP-82-2005: The tuberculosis patient confirms Tissa Kumara's allegation; The Sri Lankan state's unwilling to address nasty policing
• UP-32-2004: Tissa Kumara receives further death threats
• UG-02-2004: Provide fax machines in all courts to reduce delay in court communications
• UP-28-2004: Police pressure the torture victim to withdraw case by threatening his family
• UP-21-2004: The torture victim acquires tuberculosis by the direct action of the police
• UA-18-2004: Severely injured torture victim need urgent medical treatment

• AHRC-PL-101-2005: Attorney General files appeal against acquittal by the Kalutara High Court of the police officer charged with torture
• AHRC-PL-45-2005: Movement for legal reform hits the streets of Sri Lanka
• AHRC-PL-48-2004: Lack of fax machines in courts causes delay in justice in Sri Lanka
• AHRC-PL-43-2004: Latest police killing puts serious pressure on Sri Lankan NPC
• AHRC-PL-38-2004: New anti-torture policy of Sri Lankan rights body slammed
• AHRC-PL-37-2004: Sri Lankan Supreme Court gives go-ahead on TB torture case
• AHRC-PL-36-2004: A call for the immediate release of the Sri Lankan citizen whose mouth the police got a TB patient to spit into resulting in that citizen acquiring Tuberculosis

• Compilation of Documents for Palitha Thissa Kumara's Appeal (PDF format)
• Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Act, No. 22 of 1994
• Medical Report of K. Palitha Thissa Kumara (PDF format)

• AS-259-2006: Palitha Thissa Kumara's case - the Supreme Court holds torture committed - High Court holds charge not proved - an appeal to be filed by the torture victim
• AS-257-2006: Difficulties in finding justice for torture victims - the judgment in the case of Korala Liyanage Palitha Thissa Kumara is due today
• AS-105-2005: Sri Lankan lawyer under grave threats amid growing efforts to intimidate human rights workers and institutions
• AS-22-2004: Protection of complainants and the role of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka - Two sad incidents
• AS-15-2004: Failure to discipline criminal police officers in Sri Lanka exacerbates social instability
• AS-12-2004: The inadequacies of the torture prevention policy adopted by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka