Abstract

The necessity of providing required and necessary protection for the victims of crime is a matter of concerns in Sri Lanka today. Since 1995, several penal law amendments have been introduced to the legal system to strengthen the law relating rape and provide the justice- including protection- to rape victims. In 2015, the Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act No 4 of 2015 (APVCW) enacted with the purpose of ensuring the protection, providing assistance and support to the victims of crime. Even in such scenario, the victims of rape are (re) victimized in the hands of the officials of agencies of the criminal justice system in the country today. Therefore, this study intends to overview the existing substantive law relating to rape and the relevant procedural laws in that regard in order to critically evaluate the dilemmas in those laws which cause rape victims to be re-victimized in the criminal justice process. The paper is mainly based on secondary resources including, domestic penal statutes, international instruments, books, journal articles, web documents, decided cases etc. A brief statistical anlaysis of the offense of rape and observations and opinion of author based on personal interviews conducted with the officials of the criminal justice system in Sri Lanka and rape victims are also included to achieve the objectives of the study.

摘要

今天，在斯里兰卡，一个令人担忧的问题是必须为犯罪受害者提供必要和必要的保护。自1995年以来，法律体系中已经引入了几项刑法修正案，以加强与强奸有关的法律，并为强奸受害者提供司法保护（包括保护）。2015年，颁布了《 2015年第4号援助和保护犯罪和证人受害者法》（APVCW），目的是确保提供保护，向犯罪受害者提供援助和支持。即使在这种情况下，今天在该国刑事司法系统机构官员的手中也（再）使强奸受害者受害。所以，这项研究旨在概述与强奸有关的现行实体法和有关这方面的程序性法律，以便对那些使强奸受害者在刑事司法程序中重新受害的法律进行两难评估。本文主要基于次要资源，包括国内刑法，国际文书，书籍，期刊文章，网络文档，已决案件等。根据对被强奸者的个人访谈，对强奸罪和作者的见解和观点进行简要的统计分析。斯里兰卡刑事司法系统的官员和强奸受害者也包括在内，以实现研究的目标。