Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday jailed former agriculture minister and leading opposition figure S. B. Dissanayake for contempt after he made a speech critical of judges.
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday jailed former agriculture minister and leading opposition figure S. B. Dissanayake for contempt after he made a speech critical of judges. Dissanayake, who is also a legislator from the main opposition United National Party, was escorted to prison shortly after Chief Justice Sarath Silva read out the verdict after a lengthy trial.
Following the conviction, he automatically loses his seat in parliament and will be disqualified from contesting any future election.
No appeal is possible against a Supreme Court verdict.
Dissanayake was initially a staunch loyalist of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, but fell out of favour in 2001 and led a split that saw the collapse of her government in that year.
He aligned himself with former premier Ranil Wickremesinghe, but after a brief stay in government lost the April elections to Kumaratunga’s Marxist-backed Freedom Alliance.
He was charged with making a speech at a southern Sri Lankan town in November