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Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Bangalore
A prominent left-wing Indian journalist critical of Hindu nationalist politics has been shot dead in the south-western Karnataka state, police say. Gauri Lankesh, 55, was found lying in a pool of blood outside her home in the city of Bangalore. The motive for the crime was not immediately clear. She was shot in the head and chest by gunmen who arrived by…
BBC - Sep 06 00:16 GMT - more ... [ Tags: India, Media, World ]
Remembering Sivaram
His biographer speaks of the unimaginable cultural consequences of living continually under the gun. Although this comment was made about Tamil communities living in Sri Lanka more widely, it provides the basis for understanding Dharmaretnam Sivaram’s core beliefs about the role of intellectuals, or those with knowledge (and privilege) in public life. It is these…
Groundviews - May 26 07:43 GMT - more ... [ Tags: HumanRights, Media, WarCrimes ]
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Sri Lanka: Hidden Hand Behind Journalist Killings Visible, But Fingerprints Missing
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ), which has an arresting headline on its website titled “Sri Lanka: Where Journalists are Killed with Impunity,” lists the killings of 25 Sri Lankan journalists since 1992, with 19 where “motives were confirmed” and six with “motives unconfirmed.” David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on ‘the…
Citizen - May 05 10:37 GMT - more ...
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Police in Sri Lanka arrest intelligence officers over journalist killing
Police in Sri Lanka have arrested five military intelligence officers on suspicion of assassinating a prominent anti-establishment newspaper editor and orchestrating attacks on other journalists and dissidents under the former regime, a legal source has said. The 2009 killing of Lasantha Wickrematunge, a fierce critic of the then president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, provoked…
The Guardian - Feb 23 08:03 GMT - more ...
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Alleged suicide note: Rtd. Army officer claims he killed Lasantha
A 52-year-old retired sergeant major attached to the Intelligence Unit of the Army had allegedly committed suicide after writing a letter claiming that he had assassinated Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge. Sgt. Major Ilandarage Jayamanne, was a resident of Dehipitiya Road at Karandupana in Kegalle. The letter had been titled ‘To whom it may…
Daily Mirror - Oct 14 14:56 GMT - more ...
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BBC journalist who says he was sacked for telling the truth about Sri Lankan civil war wins unfair dismissal appeal
A BBC World Service journalist who claims he was sacked for favouring coverage about the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils has won an appeal and successfully argued that he was unfairly dismissed. “It seemed very clear that the BBC Sinhala service gave the impression of toeing the government line, particularly when it came to the tragic events at the end of the war. …
PressGazette - Sep 16 13:09 GMT - more ...
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Looking at Media Freedom in Sri Lanka
Mahinda Rajapaksa was president of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. Since Maithripala Sirisena assumed the presidency in January 2015, what’s changed in terms of media freedom? The current government has had a better track record in relation to freedom of expression (FOE) and media freedoms. But then, we must remember that all human freedoms suffered so heavily…
Huffington Post - Aug 04 02:11 GMT - more ...
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IPI concerned by attack on Sri Lanka editor
The International Press institute (IPI) today called on Sri Lanka’s government to bring to justice those behind the recent beating of a journalist who was attacked and struck in the head with a pole. Freddy Gamage, editor of website Meepura and convener of Sri Lanka’s Professional Web Journalists Association was walking towards his car after covering a Negombo…
IPI - Jun 10 09:53 GMT - more ...
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Towards True Freedom of Expression
Former editor in chief of the Nation in Thailand, Kavi Chongkittavorn received an unexpected scoop when visiting Sri Lanka in the 1990s. The source – Minister of Foreign Affairs Lakshman Kadirgamar, who challenged, “If I give you stories… stories which involve Thailand, will you write them?” Chongkittavorn replied that it was his duty to do so. The…
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Colombo detains ITAK youth leader cum editor after criticism on PTA arrests
The notorious 'Terrorist' Investigation Division (TID), operated by the 'Defence Ministry' of genocidal Sri Lanka has arrested V.S. Sivakaran, the Youth Wing secretary of Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi (ITAK) and the editor of Tamil weekly ‘Puthiyavan’ on Wednesday afternoon at the paper office located on Mannaar Main street. Sivakaran's arrest is an attempt to…
TamilNet - Apr 27 19:15 GMT - more ...
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A Setback for Media Freedom in Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan government has instructed all websites to register with the Ministry of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media before March 31, 2016. "The announcement is a significant one," says Sanjana Hattotuwa, a senior researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a Colombo-based think tank. Hattotuwa says the edict is illegal, just as it was when Mahinda…
Huffington Post - Mar 03 11:36 GMT - more ...
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Where is journalist Subramanium Ramachandran 9 years after he disappeared?
Subramanium Ramachandran, a Jaffna based Tamil journalist disappeared on 15th of February 2007 in Jaffna. Despite eyewitness accounts of being detained at an Army checkpoint and camps, till today his whereabouts are unknown and his elderly parents and family await his arrival every day. His colleagues and family remember him as a courageous journalist who would write…
Groundviews - Feb 16 20:08 GMT - more ...
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South Asia Record Investigating Violence Against Scribes Is Dismal
Sri Lanka is 165th in the World Press Freedom Index. The focus of the index for Sri Lanka was Uthayan - which was the target of two violent attacks within the space of 10 days in April. Two of its employees were injured, its printing press was set on fire and the premises were badly damaged. Uthayan received a Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize, remaining…
CB - Nov 09 14:38 GMT - more ...
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Sri Lanka detains soldiers in case of missing cartoonist
Sri Lankan police have detained 11 people, most of them soldiers or former soldiers, in a widening probe into the disappearance of a cartoonist that has become a test case of the new government's resolve to address human rights abuses. Prageeth Eknaligoda, a fierce critic of former president Mahinda Rajapakse, went missing near Colombo more than five years ago,…
Reuters - Oct 23 10:18 GMT - more ...
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Sri Lanka arrests army personnel over missing journalist
Sri Lanka's police Monday arrested four army personnel, including two senior officers, in connection with the disappearance of a dissident cartoonist that triggered international condemnation of the island's rights record. Two lieutenant colonels, a sergeant and a corporal were arrested following the testimony given by three other suspects already in custody over the…
AFP - Aug 25 02:19 GMT - more ...
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Sri Lanka moves to re-establish restrictive media regulatory body
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about Sri Lankan authorities' decision to re-establish the Sri Lankan Press Council, a media regulatory body which gives the government powers to jail journalists in connection with their reporting. The Press Council was established under the 1973 Press Council law and is made up of members appointed by the…
CPJ - Jul 09 12:17 GMT - more ...
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World Press Freedom day 2015 and Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka
Amidst killings, disappearances, assaults, threats, intimidations, harassments and restrictions on journalists, widespread self-censorship and exile of journalists critical of the government, surveillance and blocking of websites, and absolute impunity, there was very little to celebrate World Press Freedom day in Sri Lanka last few years. Perhaps the only thing to…
Groundviews - May 03 13:12 GMT - more ...
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Sri Lanka: The more things change...
The immediate outcome of the January election has been a fillip to freedom of expression in the media, but behind the euphoria of the moment trails a three-decade-long record of a press under siege. THERE may be a nostalgic colouring to this, but well into the 1980s it seemed that there was a vibrant public intellectualism in force in Sri Lanka that engaged with…
FrontLine - Apr 16 11:44 GMT - more ...
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Journalist faces charges after publishing report critical of Sri Lankan police
A freelance journalist for a Tamil-language daily in Sri Lanka has been charged in connection with a story he wrote that criticized the police, according to news reports and the paper's editor, who spoke to the Committee to Protect Journalists. N. Logathayalan, a freelancer for Uthayan, was detained on Wednesday in connection with a story he wrote for the paper…
CPJ - Apr 10 11:59 GMT - more ...
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Memories of Prageeth Ekneligoda
Prageeth Ekneligoda, one of the best political cartoonists this country has ever produced was known for his great talent and political vision. He is now remembered for his disappearance on the night of 24 January, just two days before the 2010 Presidential elections. It was reported that Prageeth had previously been abducted in August 2009 and was released. On that…
Groundviews - Jan 28 03:02 GMT - more ...
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Ex-Sri Lanka leader's brother accused of killing editor
Sri Lankan authorities are investigating a claim that the toppled president's younger brother ran a "death squad" and ordered a high-profile newspaper editor's assassination, a police spokesman said Sunday. Former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse ordered the hit on Lasantha Wickrematunga in January 2009, ex-public relations minister Mervyn Silva alleged in a…
AFP - Jan 18 21:55 GMT - more ...
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Questions remain over Sri Lanka editor’s death despite new arrests
Five officers in Sri Lanka’s military intelligence apparatus have been arrested on suspicion of assassinating a newspaper editor eight years ago — in a murder with a dramatic aftermath, and one that became an example of the previous government’s attacks on dissidents. Lasantha Wickrematunge, the editor of the Sunday Leader, was killed in 2009 while on his way…
The National - Feb 23 08:05 GMT - more ...
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Wigneswaran asks government why killing or disappearance of Tamil journalists is not investigated
The Chief Minister of the Tamil-majority Northern Province of Sri Lanka, C.V.Wigneswaran, on Sunday charged that the Sri Lankan government is not investigating the killing or disappearance of Tamil journalists when it is investigating cases involving Sinhalese journalists. “When the present leaders assumed power in 2015, they promised to investigate the killing and…
IE - Nov 07 14:16 GMT - more ...
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Journalist threatened inside police station in Sri Lanka
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) in condemning the inaction of the police while a TV journalist was threatened inside a police station in Sri Lanka on September 27. The IFJ demands that the authorities immediately investigate the incident. Ranjith Karunaweera, a journalist with Hiru TV in…
IFJ - Oct 05 15:20 GMT - more ...
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Former Editor Upali Tennekoon identifies officer who assaulted him
Senior journalist and former Editor of the 'Rivira' Upali Tennekoon identified the person who attacked him in January 2009, in a parade before Gampaha Acting Magistrate Mahesh Herath this morning. The suspect is a former sergeant attached to the Intelligence Unit of the Sri Lanka Army. He is the same officer held in connection with the murder of Lasantha…
CDN - Aug 26 14:28 GMT - more ...
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Journalism Awards for Excellence 2015
The 17th edition of the Journalism Awards for Excellence 2015 was held yesterday, August 02, 2016 at the Empire Ballroom of the Mt. Lavinia Hotel. The event is jointly organized by The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL) and the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI). A total of more than 200 applications from 11 newspaper publishing groups were received by the…
Sunday Times - Aug 03 05:10 GMT - more ...
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Remembering Sivaram (Taraki)
Today’s event focuses on one man. Today morning, there was a protest in Colombo, organized by a coalition of media freedom groups and others, demanding accountability for Sivaram’s murder. It is fitting that events to remember Sivaram are held in both North and South, as he had also worked and lived in South and had many friends in the South. Although the…
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Sri Lankan protest demands new probe of Tamil journalist's killing
Hundreds of journalists and media rights activists protested today to demand Sri Lanka's new government start a fresh investigation into the abduction and killing of a prominent ethnic Tamil journalist 11 years ago, during the country's civil war. Those demonstrating in front of Colombo's main railroad station said Dharmeratnam Sivaram was targeted because of…
First Post - Apr 29 15:43 GMT - more ...
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CID Turns To The TID
The probe into the murder of the founding Editor of The Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge has taken a new twist with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) turning the investigation towards the Terrorism Investigations Division (TID), which was handed over the inquiry by the former regime. The CID has already interrogated a former Inspector General of…
Sunday Leader - Mar 27 14:08 GMT - more ...
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JOC Got Tip Minutes Before Lasantha Was Killed
The Joint Operations Command (JOC) received a tip-off an hour before the founding Editor of The Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge was killed, sources said. According to the sources, the tip-off had been received by a military official who was in charge of the Western Province.A former top official of the JOC had informed the Criminal Investigations Department…
Sunday Leader - Feb 28 12:29 GMT - more ...
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KIMFF:News from Jaffna
It is fitting therefore that FSA this year is showing News from Jaffna - a 28-minute long documentary that follows the path of a young female journalist, Thadsa, who works for Uthayan - a widely known daily paper run by Tamils out of Jaffna. The paper refuses to blink in the face of widespread media censorship - which exists, as Thadsa points out in one of her…
Nepal Times - Nov 20 14:08 GMT - more ...
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ICP Asks of Sri Lanka Visit by UN Disappearances Group, How ISIS Considered
When Bernard Duhaime, the Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, held a press conference at the UN on October 22, Inner City Press asked him about his country visit to Sri Lanka set for next month, and about how the Working Group considers disappearances and worse by ISIS and other “non-state groups.” Duhaime said he…
ICP - Oct 27 13:22 GMT - more ...
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Top Army General to be grilled over Eknaligoda disappearance
It has been established that the journalist, who was abducted in Colombo two days before the Presidential election in 2010, had been taken to Girithale Army camp where he was questioned by a group of intelligence unit officers. Lt. Col. Shammi Kumara Ratnayake, Lt. Col. Siriwardena, Staff Sergeant Rajapakse, Corporal Jayalath, retired Sergeant Maj. Ranbanda, Sergeant…
CDN - Sep 25 10:22 GMT - more ...
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4 Army Officers Arrested Over Killing Of Journalist In Sri Lanka
Four army officers have been arrested in Sri Lanka over the abduction and suspected killing of a political journalist during the regime of former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, police said on Monday. The disappearance of Pradeep Ekneligoda five years ago was never investigated after senior members of the former president’s regime claimed that the journalist was…
DPA/NAN - Aug 24 19:12 GMT - more ...
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Video: Don't abuse the prevailing media freedom - Ravi
Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake today requested journalists and media institutions to be careful when using the media freedom that prevails under the new government. He said journalists should verify their facts and figures by speaking to the sources without writing news stories just to fulfill certain agendas. “Attacking us through the media is fine but…
Daily Mirror - May 27 13:06 GMT - more ...
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Sri Lanka journalists in exile in Nepal to return
Sri Lankan journalists who fled the country for safety reasons and now living in exile in Nepal will be allowed to return, foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera told the parliament today. He was responding to a query from opposition legislator Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Dissanayake said the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Nepal had refused to facilitate the evacuation of…
PTI - Apr 27 12:55 GMT - more ...
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Sri Lanka police in Jaffna criticised for arrest and intimidation of journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Free Media Movement (FMM) condemn the heavy-handed action of Sri Lankan police in charging a freelance journalist on Wednesday, April 8 in Jaffna. The IFJ said this attack on press freedom appeared to be aimed at intimidatintg the media. "The FMM urges the government to investigate these incidents at the same…
IFJ - Apr 14 10:10 GMT - more ...
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India media back Colombo's efforts to boost ties with Delhi
Papers praise visiting Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena for focusing on improving ties with India. Mr Sirisena met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. The two sides signed key agreements on trade and civil nuclear co-operation during Mr Sirisena's first official foreign visit since taking office. Papers feel the new Sri Lankan president…
BBC - Feb 17 23:24 GMT - more ...
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How Sri Lanka's new president can ease decade of repressive press measures
If the new leadership truly aspires to foster a healthier climate for press freedom it must take serious steps to address the culture of impunity in anti-press violence that has flourished in the past decade. Sri Lanka ranks fourth in the world on CPJ's 2014 Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are frequently murdered and the killers remain…
CPJ - Jan 27 13:56 GMT - more ...
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