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Rishad Bathiudeen, leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Party. AFP/File COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s police arrested a top Muslim legislator on Saturday in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks that killed 279 people, as pressure mounted to speed up the investigation. Detectives took Rishad Bathiudeen, leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Party (ACMP) and a former minister, into custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), police spokesman Ajith Rohana said. Bathiudeen and his brother Riyaaj were arrested in pre-dawn raids on their homes in Colombo. “They were arrested under the PTA based on circumstantial and scientific evidence that they had connections with the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks,” Rohana said in a statement. ....
April 2021 Tensions continued to mount among Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt ahead of Addis Ababa’s planned second unilateral filling of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in coming months. In apparent warning to Addis Ababa and preparation for possible escalation of inter-state tensions, Sudan and Egypt 31 March-5 April held second joint military exercise since Nov 2020. New round of talks among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on filling and operation of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Blue Nile river broke down 6 April. Cairo same day denounced Ethiopia’s “lack of political will to negotiate in good faith”, while Khartoum vowed to “consider all possible options to protect its security”, denouncing Addis Ababa’s rejection of its proposal for quadripartite mediation by AU, EU, UN and U.S. to break deadlock in AU-led negotiations. Ethiopia’s water minister Seleshi Bekele 7 April said Addis Ababa would proceed with second filling of dam during forthcoming rainy seas ....
Sri Lanka Cabinet Bans All Forms Of Face Veils Including Burqa, Cites National Security Concerns A burqa-clad woman. (Representative image) Amid crackdown on Islamic extremists in Sri Lanka, the cabinet of the island nation on Tuesday (27 April) cleared a proposal to ban all forms of face veils in public places citing national security concerns. âThe Cabinet has approved the proposal, it will now go to the legal draftsmen and then be brought to parliament,â cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told the weekly media conference. Reacting to the development, Pakistani envoy in Colombo in a tweet said the ban âwill only serve as injury to the feelings of ordinary Sri Lankan Muslims and Muslims across the globeâ. ....
Coimbatore: Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) president M H Jawahirullah on Saturday condemned the Sri Lankan government for banning a few Muslim outfits. In a press statement, he said the government led by prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has been functioning against the minority Muslims and Tamils in Sri Lanka. “The Sri Lankan government has banned 11 Muslim outfits and linked them to the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 279 people in 2019. Most of the banned outfits have been fighting against the extremisms in that country. The government, however, has failed to ban the Sinhala outfits,” he said. The Lankan government had on Saturday arrested MP Rishad Bathiudeen, leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Party, for allegedly harbouring a few Muslim outfit members, who were involved in Easter Sunday attacks. ....
Sri Lanka arrests MP, his brother after raids Sri Lanka arrests MP, his brother after raids Agencies / Updated: Apr 25, 2021, 06:00 IST 2019 Easter Rishad Bathiudeen and his COLOMBO, SRI LANKA Sri Lanka’s police on Saturday arrested a top Muslim leader and member of parliament in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people. Rishad Bathiudeen, leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Party, was taken into custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act ( PTA), along with his brother Riyaaj following pre-dawn raids on their homes in Colombo. “They were arrested under the PTA based on circumstantial and scientific evidence that they had connections with the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks,” ....