COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan court convicted 15 men on Tuesday over their involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 260 people, and sentenced them each to 200 years in prison, meaning they will spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
The three-judge High Court panel also ordered their property confiscated. The verdict was delivered after a lengthy trial that spanned for nearly five years. A three-judge High Court panel delivered the verdict amid tight security, with hundreds of police officers deployed around the courthouse. A parliamentary committee found that police and intelligence officials failed to act on repeated intelligence warnings of the attacks. In July, a former police chief and a former senior defense ministry official were also sentenced to death for failing to act promptly on foreign intelligence warnings of possible attacks. In February, police arrested Suresh Salley, a former intelligence chief and retired army major general, in connection with the bombings. The government has alleged that Salley, who remains in custody, had prior knowledge of the attacks and actively conspired to carry them out.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan court convicted 15 men on Tuesday over their involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings , which killed more than 260 people and wounded about 500.
