A/HRC/7/3/Add.6 page 47 For one and a half months he has not been questioned further. He felt that because he was a police officer he was treated well by the CID officers. In general, he thought that people were treated better in CID than in other places, such as TID or police stations. He is afraid of getting out of detention because he feels he is a target for different groups. 84. H.M. Anura Bandarai, aged 35, a lorry driver, Colombo. On 12 May 2007, he was stopped in Vavuniya and found to be transporting TV sets in which the LTTE had hidden explosives. He was arrested and taken to the police station where he spent two days before he was brought to CID. He does not have complaints against the officers. 85. Wijewickrama Manamperige Sampath Prethi Viraj, aged 30. He is a soldier of the Sri Lankan Army. On 2 July 2007 he was summoned to CID where he was arrested. First, he was detained on the sixth floor, where he was bitten by a rat. He was also slapped in the face by a police officer on the sixth floor. The CID officers told him that he was going to be detained for one year. On 8 August, he was moved to the fourth floor. He is not allowed to leave his cell and can only talk to the detainee next to him. He wept often as he was distressed and wanted to get out. 86. Rasaiya Devarasa, aged 33. He has been detained in CID since 1 June 2007. He comes from the Vanni area and his family visited him three times so far. In June, he was beaten with a wooden baton on his soles as well as on his stomach, and was handcuffed in a very uncomfortable position. This ill-treatment went on three times per day for 15 to 20 minutes. 87. Nimantha Anura Bandara Ekanayake, aged 26. He was arrested in the north of the country on 12 May 2007 and had to stay in the police station until 14 May 2007, before he was transferred to CID. So far, he has only been interrogated once. He has not been beaten. He was brought before court three times but no one spoke to him there. 88. Vairamuththu Jayachandran, aged 56. He has been detained in CID since 22 June 2007. He was first arrested in Hong Kong in 2002. So far, he had been visited by the ICRC three times. 89. Liyanaarachchige Abeyratne, aged 37. On 17 September 2007 he was summoned to CID, where he was arrested. He is held under a detention order for 90 days. He had no complaints regarding his treatment. Sixth floor 90. Jayasuriga, aged 36. On 11 November 2006, he was arrested in Badulla because he had rented out his house to a Tamil who had apparently used his motor bike for the assassination of a minister. He was brought from his house directly to CID, where he was interrogated before being put in a cell. He is under a detention order and has spent almost one year in CID. He initially stayed on the fourth floor and then was moved to the sixth floor. He has not been interrogated for nine months but then the questioning started again. He reported that he had no complaints regarding his treatment.