Sri Lanka Easter attacks convicts to challenge 200-year jail terms

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Fifteen people convicted over Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday suicide attacks will challenge their jail terms of more than 200 years each, a defence lawyer said on Wednesday. The attacks, carried out by nine suicide bombers from the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat, linked to ISIS, had targeted three Catholic churches and three luxury hotels on April 21, 2019.