Posted on January 10, 2008 by FMM
10th January, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) is shocked and outraged that in an apparent abduction attempt police tried to enter the residence of senior journalist Poddala Jayantha during the early hours of January 7. Poddala Jayantha, provincial news editor of the Sinhala language weekly Silumina is the general secretary of largest [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by FMM
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10th January 2008
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on Sri Lanka’s Government and its President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to take urgent action to protect the safety of journalists and uphold the rights of the media to report on issues of public interest.
A serious deterioration in the press [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by FMM
January 9, 2008
His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa
President of Sri Lanka and Minister of Defense, Public Security, Law and Order
Presidential Secretariat
Colombo 1
Sri Lanka
Via facsimile: +94 11 2430 590
Dear President Rajapaksa,
As your government prepares to withdraw from its 2002 cease-fire agreement with Tamil separatists, the Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by reports that members of your [...]
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