斯里兰卡前总统戈塔巴亚·拉贾帕克萨已向最高法院提起诉讼，请求依据反恐法获得免受逮捕的保护，以应对2019年复活节周日造成近270人死亡的爆炸案。此前，上诉法院于10月1日在没有举行听证的情况下，驳回了他要求禁止警方刑事调查部门逮捕自己的诉状。该案涉及2019年4月21日在斯里兰卡针对三座天主教堂和三家豪华酒店发动的协调一致的复活节周日自杀式袭击。
Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has moved the Supreme Court seeking protection from arrest under anti-terrorism laws in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed nearly 270 people. The move comes after the Court of Appeal on October 1 dismissed, without a hearing, his writ petition seeking an order to prevent the police Criminal Investigation Department from arresting him. The case relates to the coordinated Easter Sunday suicide attacks carried out on April 21, 2019, on three Catholic churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.
此次爆炸由与“伊斯兰国”有关联的当地伊斯兰极端组织“国家统一党”的九名自杀式袭击者实施，造成近270人死亡，其中包括11名印度人，另有超过500人受伤。今年6月，科伦坡堡垒地方法院对这位77岁的前总统实施了出境禁令，此举被视为其可能在调查中被逮捕的前兆。拉贾帕克萨于2019年就任总统，直到2022年中期大规模反政府抗议活动中被迫辞职，此后他向上诉法院寻求免受逮捕的保护。
The bombings, carried out by nine suicide bombers from the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat linked to ISIS, killed nearly 270 people, including 11 Indians, and injured more than 500. In June, the Colombo Fort Magistrate's Court imposed an overseas travel ban on the 77-year-old former president, a move seen as a possible precursor to his arrest in the investigation. Rajapaksa, who was president from 2019 until he was forced to step down during mass anti-government protests in mid-2022, then approached the Court of Appeal for protection from arrest.
他的律师辩称，在复活节周日爆炸案调查方面，没有合理理由对其实施出境禁令。然而，政府方面则告诉法院，无法保证拉贾帕克萨不会被逮捕。围绕2019年袭击事件的更广泛法律程序仍在斯里兰卡持续进行。今年9月，一家法院认定15人参与复活节周日爆炸案，并判处每人超过200年监禁。7月，前警察局长普吉特·贾亚桑德拉和时任国防部最高官员的赫马西里·费尔南多因未能利用此前可能阻止袭击的情报而犯有玩忽职守罪，被判处死刑。拉贾帕克萨的家人也面临新的法律问题。
His lawyers argued that there were no reasonable grounds to impose the travel ban on him in connection with the Easter Sunday investigation. The state, however, told the court that it could give no undertaking that Rajapaksa would not be arrested. The wider legal proceedings over the 2019 attacks have continued in Sri Lanka. In September, a court found 15 people guilty of involvement in the Easter Sunday bombings and sentenced each of them to more than 200 years in prison. In July, former police chief Pujith Jayasundera and Hemasiri Fernando, who was then the top bureaucrat in the Defence Ministry, were sentenced to death after being found guilty of criminal dereliction of duty for failing to act on prior intelligence that could have prevented the attacks. Rajapaksa's family has also faced fresh legal trouble.
他的妻子希兰蒂·拉贾帕克萨于周三因一起腐败案被捕，该案件涉及被指控滥用1000万斯里兰卡卢比的公共资金；而他的侄子纳马尔·拉贾帕克萨自9月初以来，因另一起腐败案一直被拘留。总体而言，拉贾帕克萨向最高法院提出的动议，是围绕复活节周日爆炸案及其相关法律行动展开的长期调查中的最新进展。
His wife Shiranthi Rajapaksa was arrested on Wednesday in a corruption case over the alleged misuse of LKR 10 million in public funds, while his nephew Namal Rajapaksa has been in remand since early September in a separate corruption case. Overall, Rajapaksa's Supreme Court move is the latest development in the long-running investigation into the Easter Sunday bombings and the legal action linked to it.