{
  "id": 12988348,
  "title": "CCIB declared a place of detention under PTA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/ccib-declared-a-place-of-detention-under-pta",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T23:45:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/ccib-declared-a-place-of-detention-under-pta/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has declared the Central Criminal Investigation Bureau (CCIB) as a place of detention in terms of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The President made the declaration by issuing an Extraordinary Gazette notification. The Central Criminal Investigation Bureau is currently located at the Labour Secretariat building in Colombo 05.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}