The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court has issued an arrest warrant against MP Wimal Weerawansa for failing to appear before the courts.
The MP is reported to have failed to appear in Court over the case filed pertaining to the protest conducted in front of the United Nations (UN) Office in 2016.
The arrest warrant was issued when the complaint filed by the Cinnamon Gardens Police against the MP and 6 others was taken up for hearing before Colombo Chief Magistrate today (18).
A case was filed on the charges of causing public inconvenience by blocking the roads around the UN Compound at Thummulla, Colombo when the then-UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Al Hussein visited Sri Lanka in the year 2016.
Seven persons, including MP Wimal Weerawansa, Weerakumara Dissanayake, Piyasiri Dissanayake, Mohammed Muzammil, Jayantha Samaraweera, and Roger Seneviratne were named as the accused in the case. (NewsWire)
