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TAMIL DENIED ASYLUM CANNOT BE DEPORTED TO SRI LANKA DUE TO A VERDICT BY THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

By Walter Jayawardhana

The British authorities are in a quandary after a verdict by the European Court of Human Rights that a Tamil man denied asylum in the United kingdom cannot be sent back to his native Sri Lanka.

The verdict given over a 33 year old Sri Lankan Tamil by the European Court says the man who came to Britain in 1999 and sought asylum and denied the status, cannot be deported to Sri Lanka since he feared ill treatment by Sri Lankan authorities if he returned.

The European human rights court said that it had received appeals against 342 other similar cases and asked the British authorities to suspend the deportations pending rulings in the other cases.

The main case in question refers to the Tamil man who had been arrested six times during seven years and had been released every time he was arrested without being charged. He said once during these seven years he had been beaten by police batons and had scars on his legs. All arrests had been in connections with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) the court was told.
The court agreed with British authorities that the deterioration in security did not create a general risk for all Tamils returning to Sri Lanka, but it found there were specific risk factors in the case they were examining.

The court said the man was released on the strength of a document by his father and the authorities would have a record of him.

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