CAPTION:  Gerald Mervyn Perera describing his torture at the Wattala police station in Sri Lanka on 3 June 2002; he was tortured to such an extent that his kidneys failed and he was rendered unconscious for two weeks. He is seen here, addressing a civil society gathering, before he was murdered in 2004— allegedly by his torturers. Recently the High Court exonerated all accused in the case filed under the Convention Against Torture Act No. 22 of 1994.

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