MPs Wimal Weerawansa and Jayantha Samaraweera produced before court today

MPs Wimal Weerawansa and Jayantha Samaraweera produced before court today

Parliamentarians Wimal Weerawansa and Jayantha Samaraweera, who were issued warrants for their arrest, appeared before Colombo Chief Magistrate Court yesterday and the court recalled the arrest warrant against them.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate Lal Ranasinghe Bandara on Monday issued warrants against the two parliamentarians since they have failed to appear in Court when a case filed against them was taken up for hearing.

The MPs through their lawyers informed the court that they could not appear in court Monday due to traffic congestion and apologized to the court for their absence.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate recalled the arrest warrants and advised the two MPs in future to appear in court at the due time.

The case was filed against MP Wimal Weerawansa and 6 others over several charges including inconveniencing the public by protesting against the arrival of the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein outside the UN complex in Thunmulla in 2016.

The other suspects in the case, Parliamentarian Weerakumara Dissanayake, Piyasiri Wijenayake, Mohammed Muzammil and Roger Seneviratne appeared in the court yesterday. They were ordered to appear before the court again on June 12.

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