Sri Lankan
police arrested a hospitalized former Cabinet minister on Friday for participating in a news conference about abductions of critics under the government of the current president's brother.
Lawyer Gunaratna Wanninayake said Rajitha Senarathna, now an opposition lawmaker, was arrested at a private hospital where he was admitted on Thursday.
A magistrate visited Senarathna at the hospital on Friday and approved his detention until Monday for investigation.