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2-year jail for former Minister in Sri Lanka

By V.S. Sambandan

COLOMBO, DEC. 7. The Sri Lankan Supreme Court today sentenced a former Sri Lankan Minister, S.B. Dissanayake, to two years' rigorous imprisonment for contempt of court.

A key leader of the Opposition United National Party (UNP), he was sentenced for comments he made on the Supreme Court and judges last year. Mr. Dissanayake, a former General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and a Minister in the President, Chandrika Kumaratunga's previous Peoples' Alliance (PA) Government, was among the PA MPs who crossed over to the UNP in October 2001.

He was subsequently appointed as a Minister in the UNP government and was made the UNP's National Organiser this May.

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