President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on June 4 issued a gazette notice naming the Counter Terrorism Investigation Unit as a place of detention, reports Colombo Gazette. The gazette had been issued as a notification under Section 9 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). “I, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President do hereby notify that the premises specified in the Schedule hereto, shall be a place of detention for the purposes under Section 9 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act, No. 48 of 1979,” the gazette notice said. The schedule lists the Counter Terrorism Investigation Unit in Colombo as a place of detention. Section 9 refers to the detention of suspects arrested under the PTA. Accordingly, the facility will be used to detain suspects arrested under the PTA.