Counsel appearing for X-Press Pearl (XPP) tells #SriLanka Supreme Court that the AGD & the owners of XPP have agreed “to the exclusive jurisdiction of the #Singapore International Commercial Court,” for all disputes connected to the fire & toxic spill. (1)
#thread @pulitzercenter (2) Visibly shocked Justice Yasantha Kodagoda, PC, questioned - in open court - how the Attorney General's Department could grant such an exclusive right to an alien court. The agreement was signed on 31 Aug 2023, during @RW_SRILANKA presidency.
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Exclusive: Some in int'l community trying to oust @RW_UNP, Minister Tiran Alles tells me. “Sections of the international community worked to topple President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, now they want to topple President Ranil Wickremesinghe, too.” (1)
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#SriLankaCrisis (2) The UN, US, Canada, EU & UK expressed serious concern, the Norwegian Ambassador strongly condemned last week's pre-dawn military assault on the protesters occupying the presidential secretariat. Journalists & lawyers were among those assaulted. At least 5 ppl were abducted.

#Thread: A Timeline of events since #HumanRights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah arrested by the police Criminal Investigation Dept on 14 April 2020 on suspicion of "aiding & abetting" of Easter Sunday suicide bomber Inshaf Ibrahim. Read -bbc.com/sinhala/sri-la… #SriLanka @Justice4Hejaaz (2) Prior to his arrest, his home & legal chambers were searched by the police. Mr Hizbullah is widely credited with convincing the Supreme Court to strike down the purported dissolution of parliament by the then Prez @MaithripalaS in Oct 2018. Read more - bbc.com/sinhala/sri-la…