Sarath Fonseka was the last political prisoner in the country, he has told BBC Sandeshaya.

Commenting on claims by Tamil parties that a large number of political prisoners remain behind bars, he said there were none in the government custody.

None of those arrested during the war are political prisoners, he stressed, noting that all of them had either killed or maimed people, caught with explosives, or committed some other act deemed a crime under the country’s laws.

However, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has said the arrested LTTEers were political prisoners.

UNP supporters such as Mano Ganeshan and civil society activists have been demanding release of political prisoners taken in during the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime.

Former MP for Galle Ajith Kumara alleged nearly 300 political prisoners were being detained at New Magazine prison, Boossa camp and at several other locations