Died prisoner diagnosed with COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

An elderly prisoner died in a hospital was diagnosed with COVID-19. The 82-year-old prisoner of Mahara prison in Gampaha district died in Ragama hospital. He was a cancer patient but a PCR conducted after his death was reported positive, prison sources said. 

The number of COVID-19 persons in Sri Lanka's overcrowded prisons is around 700 now.

Prisoner killed in Sri Lanka's Monaragala prison

A prisoner has been killed in Monaragala Prison of Sri Lanka's Uva Province by prison officials. 

The officials have assaulted the prisoner as a retaliation to an attack by the prisoner against an official on duty.

The deceased was identified as Ulupitiya Gamage Nilantha. He is a 42-year old man from Ampara. (Updated)

He is one of us (A man on the roof top of the Welikada prison of Sri Lanka)

This man is on the roof top of the Welikada prison of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo since Wednesday. He is not visible to the Baseline Road which runs in front of the prison. I captured him from the second floor of Nagarodaya Hall where I am participating in a training.

He seems a convicted man who has something to say to the world. But only a few local media reported the story even though very carelessly without digging into find the man's voice. 

He is one of us. He has a story to tell. He wants the world listen to him. That's why he is on this roof top.

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