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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoSri Lanka's Special Task Force (STF) personnel stand guard during the verdict in the trial of the accused involved in the country's Easter Sunday attacks of 2019, outside Colombo High Court in Colombo on September 22, 2026 [Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP]Published On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026Sri Lanka’s High Court has convicted 14 of the 24 men accused of being directly involved in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people.
The three-judge bench read out its decision on Tuesday after a five-year trial and said sentencing would take place later, the AFP news agency reported.
The charges included murder and conspiracy to commit terrorism.
Nine others were acquitted, while another defendant was found guilty of only some of the charges, the court said.
