HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA - Annual report 2020
**The other recommendations pertaining to economic social & cultural rights
comprise violations relating to pensions, livelihood, salary increments, transfers,
recruitment, service conditions in employment, interdiction from service,
terminations, compensations, and misuse of power.
***Rights relating to personal liberty consist of violations such as illegal arrests and
detention, torture, and deaths in custody.
Recommendations issued in 2020
Rights
relating to
personal
liberty, 14
Education, 27
ESC Rights, 46
Other ESC
rights, 19
3.2. Examples of individual complaints by
category of rights
3.2.1.
Custodial violence
(Article 11 of the Constitution)
Torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in
police custody (Complaint No: HRC/AP/473/2014)
The HRCSL found a violation of Article 11 of the Constitution in
respect of the two petitioners and directed the 1st and 3rd
respondents to pay Rs. 10,000/= as compensation to the 1st Petitioner
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