Chameera Koswatte, the governing secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party, Wasantha Mudalige, the convener of the Inter University Students Federation, and Amila Sandeep, the president of the Jayewardene University Students’ Union, who represented the front line in the recent struggle against the Kotelawala Defense University Act, have been infected with the Covid virus.
The group was arrested in the first week of this month (August) on charges of damaging public property. (3-6) After the arrest, Covid test was negative and now it has been confirmed that Covid was infected in the custody of the Prisons Department.
Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) Education Secretary Pubudu Jayagoda had made allegations at a media briefing yesterday that the government had imprisoned the protesters and organized them to spread the corona in an organized manner.
Chameera and his group who were detained in the Thaldena area in Badulla have been taken to a quarantine treatment center in the Iyakkachchi area in Jaffna. The Students’ Movement for Free Education today (28) handed over a letter to the Commissioner of Prisons in this regard. Udara Sandaruwan, Acting Convener of the Anantha University Student Federation.
Shani