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Showing posts with label press freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label press freedom. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Do not arrest and remand people for offences that can be severely warned for the first time - Journalists for Rights

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Journalists for Rights  organization urges the government not to  arrest and remand people for offences that can be severely warned for the ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Rajpala Abenayake's eagerly toeing of the line

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A Sri Lankan Journalist Eagerly Toes the Line This New York Times article is impressive. Rajpal Abenayake is one of the few really profe...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Sri Lankan Tamil journalist Tissainayagam released; his friends unhappy

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(May 05,  Colombo -  Lanka Polity )   We hail the Presidential pardon to English writing Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam who was sentenc...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Journalists expelled, arrested, disappeared and media institutions sealed in post-election Sri Lanka

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(January 30, Colombo -  Lanka Polity )   Sri Lanka government has taken strict measures to control media. Press offices have been rounded, s...
Friday, January 08, 2010

Shock and anger continue one year after Lasantha Wickrematunge’s unpunished murder

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(January 08, Colombo - Lanka Polity) “A year has gone by without any progress in the investigation into his murder,” Lal Wickrematunge said...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sri Lanka; a concern for Reporters Without Borders in Press freedom Review 2009

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(December 30, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) Reporters Without Borders says its concern in 2009 has been the mass exodus of journalists from rep...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

IFJ mission identifies key challenges for media after war's end

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(December 24, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today released the report of a press freedom missio...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Reporters Without Borders calls for calm amid pre-electoral tension in Sri Lanka

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(December 09, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) The political parties and candidate’s participating in next month’s elections must make press freed...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Sri Lanka prevents UN rapporteur on freedom of opinion visiting Sri Lanka

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(November 14, Colombo - Lanka Polity )  Frank La Rue, the UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expres...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Editor of Tamil weekly held on criminal defamation charge in India

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(November 06, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani’s detention in the southeastern state of Tami...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Are the 'unidentified gunmen' in Sri Lanka planning the first ever killing of female journalist

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(October 26, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) Suspicions are mounting if Sri Lanka's 'unknown assailants' are ahead of killing the fir...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Sri Lankan journalists rally to protest Press Council and to get Tissainayagam released

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(September 27, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) Several leading media organizations of Sri Lanka call for all citizens who value freedom in all i...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Sri Lanka specially mentioned in press release issued by Reporters Without Borders to mark the 26th International Day of the Disappeared

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 (August 29, 2009 - Lanka Polity) In a press release issued to mark the 26th International Day of the Disappeared on 30 August, Reporters Wi...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Will Sri Lanka follow Gambia?

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(August 08, 2009 - Lanka Polity) Sri Lanka that boasts to be a great nation, especially following the defeat of the Tamil Ealam nationalist ...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Editor asks for blood of a journalist in Sri Lanka

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(July 04, 2009) A clash seemingly erupted between a newspaper editor and an alternate media journalist of Sri Lanka has risen to the height ...