The case filed against Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa and several others for holding a protest and obstructing the road in Thunmulla during the visit by the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein in 2016, will be taken up for examination once again on the 12th of December 2022.
The order was issued by Colombo Chief Magistrate Nandana Amarasinghe today (29).
Parliamentarians Wimal Weerawansa, Weerakumara Dissanayake, Piyasiri Dissanayake, and Mohammad Muzzamil, defendants in the case, appeared before Court today.
Two other suspects in the case Parliamentarian Jayanath Samaraweera and actor Roger Seneviratne failed to appear before Court when the case was taken up.
Accordingly, the Chief Magistrate ordered the case to be taken up once again on the 12th of December and ordered that the defendants be present in Court.
The case was filed by the Cinnamon Gardens Police for disrupting public law and order during the arrival of the then-UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in February 2016.