based on a confession he told the court he made under duress. The court rejected his allegation and Tissainayagam was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In Japan, IMADR has worked together with the Buraku Liberation league to combat discrimination against Buraku community,including the criminal justice system. We have been working on the emblematic case of Mr Kazuo Ishikawa, who belongs to the Buraku community. In 1963 he was arrested on false charges and sentenced to death. Although he has been released on parole, he is still fighting to prove his innocence for 53 years. Armed men abducted Tamil businessman Ramasamy Prabhakaran in Colombo in February 2012, two days before the fundamental rights case that he filed against police was to be heard. Authorities had released Prabhakaran from prison in 2011 after two years in detention without charges, and he was challenging his arbitrary detention and abuse while in custody. The ICRC annual report for 2012, released on June 21, noted that ICRC Sri Lanka was handling 16,090 cases of missing persons as of December 2012, including 823 women and 1,574 minors. This caseload included cases reported to the ICRC since 1990. In 2012 the ICRC received 335 new cases, including 76 involving women and 85 involving minors, and traced 36 persons. The Muslim community too faced discrimination and violence being a minority religious group.