Saliya Pieris, PC is a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

n lawyer, and former President of the

Bar Association of Sri Lanka The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (shortened to BASL) is the Bar Association in Sri Lanka. The Institute was established in 1974, amalgamating the ''Bar Council of Sri Lanka'' which represented the Advocates and ''Law Society of Sri Lanka'' rep ...

. Pieris is an Eisenhower Fellow. He is also an alumnus of the Dealing with the Past (DwP) Programme, Switzerland and IVLP, USA. He began his career as a prosecutor in the Attorney General’s Department. Later, he served as the First Chairman of the Office on Missing Persons from February 2018 to September 2020, which was created as part of Sri Lanka's reconciliation mechanism. Additionally, he was also a Member of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka between October 2015 and March 2018. ''LMD'' magazine titled him as "Sri Lankan of The Year", for his efforts during the 2022 protests that were held in Sri Lanka. ''

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'', highlighted his role in the Sri Lankan protests, acting as a voice of reason and ensuring citizens their Constitutional freedoms through awareness via the BASL.

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