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Special Report: Journalists in Exile 2009Date:17/06/2009 Sri Lankan journalists flee under severe pressure in the past year...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: After LasanthaDate:11/01/2010 When the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Velupillai Prabhakaran, shut the sluice gates of the Mavil Aru reservoir in July 2006, depriving many of the people in the eastern province of Sri Lanka access to water, a provoked President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed to wipe out the rebel group...
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Monday, 11 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: ARTICLE 19 Strongly Condemns Death Threat Against Human Rights ActivistDate:25/08/2009 On 20 August 2009, Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, a human rights activist and Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a leading Sri Lankan think-tank and democracy NGO, as well as a long-standing ARTICLE 19 partner, received an anonymous death threat by post at his residence in Colombo...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: ARTICLE 19 Strongly Condemns Death Threat Against Human Rights ActivistDate:26/08/2009 'On 20 August 2009, Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, a human rights activist and Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a leading Sri Lankan think-tank and democracy NGO, as well as a long-standing ARTICLE 19 partner, received an anonymous death threat by post at his residence in Colombo...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalistDate:01/09/2009 'New York, August 31, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Credibility Problem, Sri Lanka business chambers condemn attack on TV stationDate:06/01/2009 Sri Lankas top business chambers condemned an attack on a private television station, saying the governments credibility is at stake if it failed to bring the culprits to justice and prevent further attacks...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Deteriorating press freedom continues post-conflictDate:17/07/2009 Today the International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka, of which ARTICLE 19 is a member, issued an open letter to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa expressing extreme concern over the deterioration of press freedom despite the military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Editor of The Hindu hits out at pro-LTTE anti social elementsDate:20/10/2008 CHENNAI: N...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Free Journalists Unfairly Held Date:09/12/2008 The Sri Lankan government should immediately drop charges and free J...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Freedom of expression and rejectionDate:14/01/2009 Freedom of expression is a jewel amongst many that shine in the crown of democracy...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Government revives harsh press lawDate:03/07/2009 Reactivation of Discredited Press Council Law a Step Backward for Sri Lanka The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate organisations in Sri Lanka - the Free Media Movement, the Sri Lanka Working Journalists' Association and the Federation of Media Employees' Trade Unions - in strongly condemning the Sri Lankan Government’s decision to revive the Press Council that was established by an act of parliament in 1973...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: IBAHRI recommends protections for a justice system, legal profession and media in perilDate:29/05/2009 Sri Lanka’s justice system, legal profession and media are all under grave threat, concludes a report published today by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Journalist still in detention after 250 daysDate:11/11/2008 As the trial of newspaper editor and human rights activist JS Tissainayagam gets underway, ARTICLE 19 and Index on Censorship call for his immediate release after being held in detention for 250 days...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Journalists trying to cover fate of Tamils are threatened, obstructedDate:29/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried by statements by Sri Lankan officials, including army commander Gen...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: More journalists harassed Date:03/06/2009 The investigation into the assault on journalist Poddala Jayantha took a new turn when the police arrested and interrogated another journalist who provided the initial information about Mr...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Nearly 400 journalists exiled since 2001, says CPJDate:30/06/2009 Sri Lankan journalist Upali Tennakoon paid a heavy price for producing critical coverage of the government offensive against Tamil rebels this year...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Parliamentarian threatens online journalistsDate:08/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the telephone threats that have been made against reporter Santha Wijesuirya of the Lankaenews website and his editor, Bennet Rupasingha, by parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa, the leader of the National Freedom Front...
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Protect the little media freedom left - RanilDate:21/10/2008 As the UNESCO stressed that the path to true democracy would be blurred when there is a mutual conflict between the media and the government, Opposition UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday warned the little media freedom in the country would be lost if all media associations did not iron out differences and safeguard their rights...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa rules the mediaDate:25/06/2009 The reintroduction of the government-run press council is another marker of the decline of Sri Lanka’s democracy, says Uvindu Kurukulasuriya “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets” ;Napoleon Bonaparte The guns are now silent in Sri Lanka...
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Thursday, 25 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Report blames an ultra-powerful authority for attacks on media freedom Date:09/04/2009 Five media organisations in Sri Lanka issuing an investigative report entitled, The Resurgence of Terror and the paramilitary forces in Sri Lanka, stated that covert operations are carried out by paramilitary groups that have the patronage of an ultra-powerful authority in carrying out terror operations...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Reporters Without Borders welcomes release of N. VithyatharanDate:27/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release of editor of the Tamil daily Sudar Oli, N...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist gets “shameful” 20-year sentence on terrorism chargesDate:01/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the “shameful” 20-year jail sentence which a Colombo high court passed today on journalist J...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: 'Then they came for me' - remembering Lanka's Wickrematunga (Feature) Date:09/02/2009 They came for him in the morning...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: University fires professor for alleging provincial elections were riggedDate:10/10/2008 The Free Media Movement (FMM) registers deep disquiet over the indictment of the General Secretary of Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), Mr...
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Friday, 10 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Website blocking condemned Date:15/07/2009 International media watchdogs have condemned the blocking of another Sri Lankan news website by the authorities...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
S.Lanka presidential challenger vows press freedomDate:07/01/2010 Sri Lanka's former army chief on Thursday launched his manifesto for the January 26 presidential elections, promising greater press freedom and a battle against rampant corruption...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka Press Council born againDate:15/06/2009 Sri Lanka Press Council, which was inactive for the last seven years, has reborn...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka throws out three Channel 4 journalistsDate:11/05/2009 Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh deported after report on deaths, food shortages and sexual abuse at refugee camp Sri Lanka deported three journalists from Channel 4 television today, a day after they were arrested for alleged false reporting on the civil war...
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Monday, 11 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka under siegeDate:02/02/2009 When the fifty-ninth division of Sri Lankas army entered Mullaitivu on 25 January 2009, it marked the fall of the last major town under the control of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka under siegeDate:02/02/2009 When the fifty-ninth division of Sri Lankas army entered Mullaitivu on 25 January 2009, it marked the fall of the last major town under the control of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lankan government comments on investigations into journalists' complaintsDate:15/06/2009 The Sri Lanka government today said they have received 50 complaints from journalists over matters ranging from threats to murder...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka's other war keeps media on the runDate:26/01/2009 Sri Lanka is in the grip of its biggest military offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, but the countrys journalists are also facing an unprecedented battle of their own...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Top Sri Lankan editor shot dead Date:19/01/2009 The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper often critical of the government has been shot dead in Colombo...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Justice in retreat: A report on the independence of the legal profession and the rule of law in Sri LankaDate:04/06/2009 In the last week of February 2009, the IBAHRI sent a high level delegation to Sri Lanka to examine the independence of the judiciary and lawyers...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Then they came for the lawyers: Sri LankaDate:22/07/2009 This is the latest post on the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence website:Traitors in black coats flocked together?Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd was given time to show cause and the case was heard 9 July 2009 at the Mt...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Case of Kankanamge v. Sri Lanka Date:22/10/2010 Since 1993 the author, a journalist and editor of the newspaper Ravaya, had been indicted several times for allegedly having defamed high State party officials...
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Friday, 22 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri LankaDate:26/01/2009 Domestic, regional and international guarantees of freedom of expression...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lankan journalist attacked 'with iron bars' Date: 30/07/2011 "An ethnic Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka’s formerly embattled north was brutally attacked with iron bars, police said on Saturday, the latest in a string of assaults on the nation’s media...
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Saturday, 30 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 4 August 2011