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Sri Lanka court convicts 15 men over deadly Easter Sunday bombings
The court also acquitted nine defendants and found one guilty on only some charges in a case that drew 23,270 prosecution charges.
- A special three-judge panel of the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar found 15 out of 24 defendants guilty of participating in the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed over 260 people and injured around 500.
- The court acquitted the remaining nine defendants of all charges, ordering their immediate release after a marathon five-year trial involving over 2,300 prosecution witnesses.
- Prosecutors faced a massive indictment framework of more than 23,000 individual charges—including conspiracy to commit terrorism, murder, aiding and abetting, and collecting illegal weapons under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
- The convicted individuals were linked to local extremist factions, National Thowheeth Jama'ath and Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State to carry out coordinated suicide strikes on three churches and three luxury hotels.
- Sentences for the 15 convicted defendants are set to be handed down in a subsequent proceeding by the High Court.
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Easter Sunday blasts case: Sri Lanka court convicts 14 accused; nine others acquitted
A 15th defendant was found guilty of only some of the charges; the men were accused of aiding and abetting the suicide bombers who struck three luxury hotels and three churches on April 21, 2019, killing 279 people
·Chennai, India
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The High Court of the capital Colombo acquitted nine out of 24 accused this Tuesday in the trial on the attacks that killed 279 people and injured hundreds of them on Easter Sunday 2019, the most deadly in the country's history.
·Paris, France
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270 people - including Bestseller owner Anders Holch Povlsen's three children - were killed when suicide bombers attacked churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday 2019. Now 15 men have been found guilty in the case
·Copenhagen, Denmark
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