The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has ordered the release of 34 individuals including the Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) General  Secretary Joseph Stalin from a case filed over staging a protest violating quarantine rules in 2021.

This case was taken up before Colombo Additional Magistrate Manjula Rathnayake yesterday (6).

Police had arrested 34 individuals including Stalin during a protest staged by the Inter University Students’ Federation, the CTU and the Frontline Socialist Party against the General John Kotelawala National Defence University Bill on 8 July 2021, under the provisions of the Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance.