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Former presidents back jailed ex-leader
Bangkok Post
|August 25, 2025
Three former presidents expressed solidarity with jailed ex-leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday and condemned his incarceration as a “calculated assault” on democracy.
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The trio, former political rivals of Mr Wickremesinghe — president between July 2022 and September 2024 — said the charges against him were frivolous.
He has been accused of using US$55,000 (1,780,900) in state funds for a stopover in Britain while returning home after a G77 summit in Havana and the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2023.
Mr Wickremesinghe, 76, was rushed to the intensive care unit of the main state-run hospital in Colombo on Saturday, a day after being remanded in custody. Doctors said he was suffering from severe dehydration on top of acute diabetes and high blood pressure.
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