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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of an ethnic Tamil asylum seeker who's been fighting efforts to return him to Sri Lanka from Britain. The asylum seeker, who hasn't been named, argued that he feared ill-treatment by both the Tamil Tiger rebels, and the Sri Lanka army. The court heard that the 33-year-old man who sought asylum in Britain in 1999 citing fears of ill-treatment by the Sri Lankan authorities, had detained him six times in seven years on suspicion of involvement with the LTTE. He had been released without charges on all occasions. ill –treated The asylum seeker told courts that he was ill –treated during detention and beaten by batons. In its judgement the court took into account what it described as the systematic use of torture by the military in its efforts to combat the Tigers. It's understood that the verdict could set an important precedent for several other similar pending cases brought by Sri Lankan asylum seekers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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India's frustration with Sri Lanka over Tamils