Supreme Court rules 2022 emergency declaration by Ranil unconstitutional

Colombo, July 23 (Daily Mirror) - The Supreme Court, in a majority decision, has ruled that the proclamation issued by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe declaring a State of Emergency in 2022—while he was serving as Acting President—violated fundamental rights.

Several petitioners, including former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, Ambika Satkunanathan, filed the petitions challenging the validity of Emergency Regulation No. 1 of 2022, which was published in the Gazette Extraordinary dated 17 July 2022.