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Human Rights Watch (HRW) and EQUAL GROUND has called on Sri Lankan authorities to end forced anal and vaginal examinations in trials against homosexuality.
In their report, HRW notes that at least seven people have been forced to physical examinations since 2017 under Sri Lanka’s penal code which criminalizes same-sex relationships. Such examinations are described as “cruel, inhuman, and degrading”. The World Health Organisation has denounced these exams as a form of violence and torture and the World Medical Association has called on all medical professionals to stop conducting the exams, saying that it is “deeply disturbed by the complicity of medical personnel in these non-voluntary and unscientific examinations”.