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According to Daily Mirror, a personal complaint has been lodged before the Colombo Magistrate's Court by a lawyer requesting to direct the CID for the ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa, who recently tendered his resignation from the position of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, has been barred from leaving the country by a local court. Mahinda Rajapaksa, who recently tendered his resignation from the position of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, has been barred from leaving the country by a local court. According to Daily Mirror, a personal complaint has been lodged before the Colombo Magistrate's Court by a lawyer requesting to direct the CID for the arrests.

A Sri Lankan court has issued travel bans against former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa after his supporters attacked anti-government protesters.

Its total foreign debt is $US51 billion. As prime minister from 2015 to 2019, Mr Wickremesinghe was accused of protecting the Rajapaksa family from allegations of corruption and other crimes after Mahinda Rajapaksa lost a presidential election in 2015. The protesters made the call while camped outside the official residence of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was appointed on Thursday by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a bid to hold onto power and quell the island nation's political and economic crisis.

A Sri Lankan court on Friday directed an order to arrest former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and six others for attacks on peaceful protesters.

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With soaring prices, fuel and food shortages and lengthy power cuts, Sri Lankans have been protesting for weeks, calling for both the Rajapaksas to step ...

Word from the street is that he has to go." "This is a crisis very much of his making. "His constituency has turned against him and therefore he has no real power base left in the country," he said. "If he stitches together a government that looks somewhat new, not as top heavy with the Rajapaksas as it was stuffed full of them, that may have more success," he said. By the time Gotabaya took office, Sri Lanka was already in an economic slump triggered by a drop in tourism after the bombings and a slew of foreign debt from infrastructure projects, many bankrolled by Chinese money and commissioned by Mahinda. Amid allegations the Sirisena government had not acted on intelligence information, and a wave of Buddhist nationalism, Gotabaya Rajapaksa swept to power in a landslide later that year. In 2020 he pushed through a constitutional amendment strengthening the power of his office at the expense of Parliament. Minority groups and international observers accused the military of targeting civilians in the war and killing rebels and civilians who surrendered in the final days. With soaring prices, fuel and food shortages and lengthy power cuts, Sri Lankans have been protesting for weeks, calling for both the Rajapaksas to step down. Angry protesters attacked the family's ancestral home in the Hambantota area, and Mahinda has been forced to take refuge on a heavily fortified naval base. But as a national debt crisis spirals out of control, with pandemic woes and rising food and fuel costs due to the war in Ukraine compounding problems from years of dubious economic decisions, their dynasty is crumbling. With soaring prices, fuel and food shortages and lengthy power cuts, Sri Lankans have been protesting for weeks, calling for both the Rajapaksas to step down.

Protesters in Sri Lanka who were attacked earlier this week by supporters of the Rajapaksa government have demanded the arrest of ex-PM Mahinda Rajapaksa.

On May 6, the government declared a state of emergency again after police sprayed tear gas and arrested students protesting near the country's Parliament, which had been adjourned until May 17. On Friday, a small group of protesters camped outside the official PM residence of Ranil Wickremesinghe, demanding that Mahinda Rajapaksa should be detained. Demonstrators in Sri Lanka, who were attacked earlier this week by government loyalists, have demanded the arrest of ex-PM Mahinda Rajapaksa for allegedly instigating the attack against them.

A group of protesters camped Friday outside the official residence of new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was appointed Thursday evening by ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe - a five-time prime minister - was appointed for the sixth time late on Thursday by president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family have taken refuge at a fortified naval base in Trincomalee, on the northeastern coast. Khan said that he has "blocked their numbers". “If he is truly on the side of the people,” he should have Mahinda Rajapaksa arrested, said Wimal Jayasuriya, a 43-year-old teacher. The odds have not deterred China's disinfectant sprayers. The finance ministry says the country currently has only $25 million in usable foreign reserves.

Ranil Wickremesinghe's appointment fails to appease protesters demanding president's resignation over economic crisis.

The rest are independent. “Discussed continued cooperation for economic recovery and stability in Sri Lanka through democratic processes,” the Indian High Commission in Colombo said in a tweet. The appointment of a new prime minister in Sri Lanka has failed to appease anti-government protesters demanding the resignation of the president for the country’s disastrous economic crisis.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (left) with his brother and former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on November 6, 2021. Credit: Facebook/Gotabaya ...

Word from the street is that he has to go.” In one notorious case, Mahinda borrowed deeply from China to build a port in Hambantota, the family’s home region. “The bombs catapulted him to victory in the 2019 election,” Jayatilleka said. While Gotabaya pursued a military career and rose through the ranks, Mahinda focused on politics and was elected president in 2005. He appointed Mahinda as prime minister and added two other brothers and a nephew to his cabinet. According to a U.N. report, about 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final months of fighting alone. The central bank said inflation was at 30 percent in April, with food prices up nearly 50 percent. “This is a crisis very much of his making. On Thursday he appointed a new prime minister of no relation. Violence erupted Monday after Rajapaksa supporters clashed with protesters in a dramatic turn that saw Mahinda resign. “But there’s another side — somewhat more rational. Nine people were killed and more than 200 injured.

A Sri Lankan court has banned former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, his politician son Namal and 15 allies from leaving the nation.

I will have to go home without any money." Rajapaksa stepped down after the fighting erupted and is in hiding in a military base in the northeast of the country. Amid a dire economic crisis, a Sri Lankan court on Thursday banned former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, his politician son Namal and 15 allies from leaving the nation over acts of violence against anti-government demonstrators.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, son Namal and 15 allies barred from leaving island over violence against anti-government protesters.

According to interviews with half a dozen eyewitnesses and police officers, the villa was the first stop on a night of vandalism targeting Rajapaksa properties. The worst financial crisis since Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948 has thrown the future of the Rajapaksas into doubt. The small southern town of Weeraketiya, where Mahinda liked to stay while visiting the family stronghold of Hambantota district, was not spared. His beloved villa has been daubed in graffiti by protesters, and a museum dedicated to his father ransacked. Nine people died in the violence and cities saw widespread destruction. Two of the nine deaths across the country in Monday’s violence occurred in Weeraketiya, after a crowd attacked the offices of a local lawmaker and his security detail fired on them in response, according to police.

The Fort Magistrate's Court asked them to surrender their passports to the court due to the investigations taking place on the attacks on the GotaGoGama and ...

In a late-night televised address to the nation on Wednesday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said action would be taken against the instigators of Monday’s “incident”. Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from Britain in 1948. The powerful Rajapaksa clan has dominated Sri Lankan politics for years. By then the pressure had mounted on him from within the ruling coalition to resign to make way for the formation of an interim all-party government.

The travel ban has also been imposed on Mahinda Rajapaksa's son and former Minister Namal Rajapaksa, Johnston Fernando, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, C. B. Rathnayake ...

Amid the political and economic crisis, the leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa who had earlier demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa before assuming Prime Ministership, has written an open letter to the President that he is ready to assume the office of Prime Minister of Sri Lanka if Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns within a stipulated time after Premadasa assuming office. The application filed in the court related to the alleged attacks launched by the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) loyalists on anti-government protesters near the Temple Trees and at the Galle Face Green in Colombo on Monday that led to widespread unrest across Sri Lanka. The ban was imposed by the Fort Magistrate consequent to an application made on behalf of the Attorney General of Sri Lanka supported by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) and aggrieved parties of the attack on anti-government protesters in Colombo on Monday, the report said.

The Fort Magistrate's Court barred them from traveling overseas due to the investigations taking place on the attacks on the GotaGoGama and MynaGoGama ...

The Fort Magistrate's Court barred them from traveling overseas due to the investigations taking place on the attacks on the GotaGoGama and MynaGoGama peaceful protest sites on Monday, News 1st website reported. The Fort Magistrate's Court barred them from traveling overseas due to the investigations taking place on the attacks on the GotaGoGama and MynaGoGama peaceful protest sites on Monday. The Attorney General had requested for a travel ban on the 17 individuals, citing that they need to be present in Sri Lanka for the investigations on the attacks on GotaGoGama and MynaGogama as it appears that they conspired and planned those attacks.