The Supreme Court today (Nov 29) issued an interim order preventing Anthony Jayamaha -- a pardoned murder convict -- from travelling overseas until December 11.
The order was issued when a petition filed by the Women and Media Collective (WMC) organisation against the pardon was taken up for hearing before a three-judge bench today.
Jayamaha, convicted of murdering Swedish teenager Yvonne Jonsson at the Rajagiriya Royal Park apartment in 2005, was granted presidential pardon by former President Maithripala Sirisena during his last days in office early this month.
He was sentenced to death by the Appeal Court in 2012, but had his term reduced to a life imprisonment, following a review in 2016.
Claiming President Sirisena's decision undermined the Rule of Law, the WMC in its petition urges the Supreme Court to suspend the presidential pardon.
Sirisena's move came under heavy criticism from the victim's family and civil society members.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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