On 7th July 2021, police in Sri Lanka arrested Mahinda Jayasinghe, general secretary of the Ceylon Teacher Service Union, for staging a protest in violation of quarantine regulations and violating a court order in Pamunugama in the Colombo suburbs. The action was called to oppose the environmental destruction of the Muthurajawela wetlands, as Jayasinghe led the protest in Bopitiya against the attempt to fill a land close to the Wetlands for a proposed energy project.