Leela Krishnan Thinagaran Harindran an LGBT 21-year-old from Sri Lanka, faced horrible persecution in Sri Lanka, where queer people suffer from rough laws that demonize sexual orientation and gender identity. Since 1995, sodomy has been criminalized for both men and women, and some religious groups in Sri Lanka punish homosexuality with the death penalty.

Regularly harassed and beaten, Leela's experience in Sri Lanka culminated in being detained by police. Leela was stripped and beaten, with cops saying that they would strip Leela naked, and turn on the video camera for the whole world to see Leela's bruised and bloody nude body.

In early 2009, things got worse. A stepped up campaign of aggression by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil people escalated to epically violent proportions. More than 50,000 Tamils were murdered, and hundreds of thousands of others were placed in Concentration Camps. Leela was surrounded by violence, some parts based on his ethnicity as a Tamil, and some parts based on his sexual orientation and gender identity.

On September 11, 2009, Leela would flee Sri Lanka on a small boat with 43 others. Three weeks later, after being intercepted by the Australian Navy, these folks would find themselves on Christmas Island, a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean.

Leela has been in captivity since October 2009. Despite the fact that Leela's been given refugee status in Australia, on the basis that if he were sent back to Sri Lanka, he would face severe persecution and violence based on his identity, he still remains in detention.

Source:

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/australias_brutal_treatment_of_an_lgbt_tamil_refugee