Ex-presidents back Wickremesinghe

In the soup: Wickremesinghe being escorted to his seat in a prison bus in Colombo, after a magistrate ordered him to be held in remand custody, following allegations that he misused state funds to travel to Britain in 2023. — AFP

Three former presidents of Sri Lanka expressed solidarity with jailed ex-leader Ranil Wickre­mesinghe and condemned his incarceration as a “calculated assault” on democracy.

The trio, former political rivals of Wickremesinghe – president between July 2022 and September 2024 – said the charges against him were frivolous.