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Court bars former Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa from leaving country

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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court today issued an interim order preventing former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Minister Basil Rajapaksa from leaving the country without the court's permission until July 28th, Sri Lanka's DailyMirror reported. The ruling came on a day that the resignation of their brother Gotabaya as president was formally announced. Gotabaya has already left the country, first for the Maldives and onwards to Singapore.