Sri Lanka’s opposition has taken President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s May Day comments to the United Nations, alleging they amount to improper executive interference in an ongoing court case. Twenty‑four opposition MPs filed a formal complaint with the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, arguing that the president’s public reference to a pending verdict and his call for supporters to applaud th…
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