11 October, 2020
A petition signed by 100 Government parliamentarians on the sudden release of Rishad Bathuitheen’s brother Riyaj Bathiudeen from remand custody, was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by Provincial Councils and Local Government State Minister Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara recently. Riyaj Bathiudeen was held in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks