Reports
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The scale of the resumption of torture in Sri Lanka following the breakdown of the cease-fire between Tamil insurgents and government forces, and the emergence of state-sponsored paramilitaries such as a breakaway Tamil group led by Col Karuna, is revealed in a new report from the Medical Foundation.
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The Medical Foundation invited four experts to address an invited audience of judges, lawyers, and senior Home Office officials on the topic of memory and its relevance to asylum seekers.
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Since the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture opened its doors in 1986, hundreds of Zairian torture survivors have sought treatment and rehabilitation from us. Our physicians examined and documented many of their cases. Others received counselling, therapy and practical assistance. Shortly after the Mobutu regime collapsed in May 1997
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During the period from 1st January 1996 to 31st December 1998 the Medical Foundation received 77 new referrals from Sierra Leone.
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MF doctors find a dozen cases of excessive or gratuitous force used against failed asylum seekers.
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Documented evidence from asylum seeker arriving in the United Kingdom.
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This report assesses Home Office asylum interviewing and the Reasons For Refusal Letters (RFRLS) It refers to case studies from the Republic of Cameroon and, in part, follows on from a previous Medical Foundation report, Every Morning Just Like Coffee
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Five years ago Serbian special police and paramilitaries, assisted by the Yugoslav Army, launched a brutal campaign of repression and "ethnic cleansing" against the predominantly ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo, killing many civilians and torturing, beating and raping others..
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If you have been tortured and have survived and escaped to Britain, our study shows that you are probably a young man or woman of around 28, married with children. You are likely to be Roman Catholic and speak French. This is probably not the first time you have seen the inside of a police lock-up...
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A summary of Tamil torture survivors
