A Sri Lankan court has sentenced 15 people to 220 years of rigorous imprisonment each for their involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. The court found 15 of the 24 accused guilty. A defence lawyer said on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, that all 15 will appeal against the verdict.

The bombings took place on April 21, 2019, when nine suicide bombers from the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat, linked to ISIS, attacked three Catholic churches and three luxury hotels. The attacks killed 279 people, including 11 Indians, and injured over 500, according to the report, which elsewhere describes the death toll as nearly 270. The sentences are described as record jail sentences.