President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Special Presidential Commission to implement the recommendations of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into political victimisation. The three member Commission will be headed by Supreme Court JudgeDhammika Priyantha Samarakoon. Supreme Court Judge Khema Kumuduni Wickramasinghe and Appeal Court Judge Rathnapriya Gurusinghe have been appointed as the other members of the commission.
In January 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed a three-member Presidential Commission of Inquiry to inquire into political victimizations that have taken place from 2015 to 2019.
The Commission were tasked with investigating incidents of political victimisation which had taken place in the wake of investigations conducted by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), FCID, CID, and the Special Investigation Unit of the Police from January 8, 2015, to November 16, 2019.
The final report of the Commission consisting of three volumes and 2043 pages was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on December 08, 2020.
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