Special report: Torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka View this issue online in PDF format: http://alrc.asia/article2/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/v01n04.pdf Table of contents Appendix: Preventing torture, in principle and in Sri Lanka [1] – Dwight Newman Case studies of torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka – Asian Human Rights Commission Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Act, No. 22 of 1994 Introduction: Torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka – Editorial Board, article 2 Letters to the Minister of Interior – Asian Human Rights Commission Recommendations to address the use of torture by the police in Sri Lanka – Asian Legal Resource Centre Trying to understand the police crisis in Sri Lanka* – Basil Fernando