Human rights activists have expressed concern about the mistreatment of a disabled former LTTE cadre, who is currently being chained to a hospital bed to receive treatment for injuries sustained in prison.
Kumarasamy Prabhakaran, a former cadre from Tharmapuram, Kilinochchi, is paralysed from the waist down.
He was arrested on 18th July in relation to a fight in the area, and remanded by the judge when produced in the court the following day.
He could not take his wheelchair into the prison in Jaffna, and has suffered badly due to the lack of basic facilities for disabled people.
He sustained infections to existing injuries due to being left on the floor and unable to perform basic hygiene or relieve himself.
Mr Prabhakaran was admitted to Jaffna Teaching Hospital on 20th July, where prison officials have kept him chained to the hospital bed.
Human rights activists have slammed the lack of basic facilities for disabled people in the prison and criticised the treatment of Mr Prabhakaran as degrading and inhumane.