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A radical of Sri Lankan absorption leaders connected Monday (June 8, 2026) began a protestation successful enactment of detained erstwhile caput of the State Intelligence work Suresh Sallay.
Sallay was admitted to the National Hospital past nighttime owed to his resorting to a accelerated unto death, alleging degrading attraction nether detention since precocious February.
His infirmary transportation came aft a missive addressed to the inspector wide of constabulary by his woman Manori Sallay alleged that her hubby was subjected to “torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”.
“We privation to nonstop a connection to the authorities that the well-being of Sallay is simply a precedence arsenic a erstwhile warfare hero. His torturing indispensable stop,” Wimal Weerawansa, a Former Minister and the person of the National Freedom Front, told reporters arsenic they began their protestation other the main Colombo railway station.
“We won’t halt until helium receives amended attraction nether detention,” Mr. Weerawansa said.
Sallay was arrested connected February 25 to question him successful a bid to way down the mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 270 people, including 11 Indians, astatine churches and five-star hotels successful Colombo.
Sallay was serving successful a diplomatic presumption overseas erstwhile the attacks took place. A retired Major General, helium was a cardinal State Intelligence authoritative nether the Mahinda Rajapaksa authorities earlier 2015.
He was accused of maintaining links with the Islamic extremist activists who carried retired the attack. Manori Sallay, successful different missive to the Director Criminal Investigation Department (CID) connected Monday (June 8, 2026), said she and her lad were lone allowed to spot her hubby from a region successful the hospital.
She urged that his attorneys beryllium allowed to sojourn him astatine his bedside. The authorities of Maithripala Sirisena was accused of inaction contempt quality being shared by India connected the impending attack.
The existent National People's Power (NPP) government, successful precocious 2024, reopened the Easter Sunday investigations, claiming that governmental power had led to its cover-up.
