Alinea 116 Rechtbank Den Haag 26 april 2013

A report by TAG reviews the torture allegations of 48 Tamils who returned to Sri Lanka from the UK between 2010 and 2012 (TAG 16 Sept. 2012, 5). TAG indicates that the data used include 26 successful refugee appeal determinations in the UK "exclusively shared with TAG," 11 interviews with asylum seekers, diaspora members, activists and journalists, and 21 medico-legal reports produced for an unpublished thesis at a UK university (ibid., 3-6). According to TAG, “a period of residence in the UK or other ‘Western’ country may itself constitute a risk factor” for torture (ibid., 3). The organization further states that “[d]emographic determinants are sufficiently broad so as to assume that a majority of Tamils are at risk of arrest and torture upon involuntary return” to Sri Lanka (ibid., 14). In an interview with the Research Directorate, the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a Sri Lankan independent and non-partisan organization that works on research and advocacy related to public policies (n.d.), indicated that being abroad leads the security apparatus to "question" returnees, and makes them wonder how the returnees left the country and who they might be associated with (14 Feb. 2013).

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