Posted on April 26, 2008 by FMM
Reporters Without Borders today condemned moves to prevent the media obtaining information after violent clashes in the north of the country on 23 April in which the Sri Lankan army reportedly lost 185 men.
“The clashes and the evident losses have pushed the military authorities into establishing preventive censorship, preventing photographers and reporters from reaching hospitals [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2008 by FMM
Fri Apr 25, 2:47 AM ET/Sri Lankan authorities have extended “unofficial” censorship to hospitals and funeral parlours as losses mount after a major battle against Tamil rebels, a media rights group said Friday.
The Free Media Movement (FMM) said the authorities had prevented photographers taking pictures of military casualties brought to hospitals following heavy fighting in [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by FMM
25 April 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Government officials barred photographers from entering hospitals where soldiers injured in battle are being treated, four photo journalists told the Free Media Movement (FMM) today. Hitherto, photographers have had no problems in entering hospitals to report on the casualties of war. It is highly likely that these measures have [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by FMM
Posted on April 24, 2008 by FMM
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය - 2008.04.23
ශ්රී ලංකා යුද හමුදාවෙන් සහ යුද හමුදාවේ අනුග්රහය ලබන අතුරු හමුදාවන් විසින් යාපනය දිස්ත්රික්කයේ මාධ්යවේදීන් ගේ ජීවිතවලටත් මාධ්ය ආයතනවලටත් සිදුකෙරෙන තර්ජන සහ හිංසන නොකඩවා සිදුවීම පිළිබඳව අප සංවිධානවල අවධානය යොමු වී තිබේ. මෙම තර්ජන සහ හිංසන හේතුවෙන් ප්රවෘත්ති වාර්තාකරණයට ප්රබල බලපෑමක් ඇති වී තිබෙන අතර මාධ්ය නිදහස උල්ලංඝනය වීම හේතුවෙන් උතුරේ පුවත්පත් [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by FMM
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය - 2008.04.23
කොළඹ මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණය ඉදිරිපිටදී ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් වෙබ් අඩවියේ මාධ්යවේදී ශාන්ත විජේසූරිය මහතාට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ සාමාජික පිරිසක් විසින් පහර දෙමින් ඔහුගේ මාධ්ය වාර්තාකරණ කටයුතුවලට බාධා පැමිණවීමේ සිද්ධිය පිළිබඳව අප මාධ්ය සංවිධාන එකමුතුවේ අවධානය යොමු වී තිබේ.
පාර්ලිමේන්තු රථගාලේ නවතා තිබූ වාහන දෙකක් පැහැරගෙන යාමේ චෝදනාව මත අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලැබූ ජ.වි.පෙ. පාර්ලිමේන්තු [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by FMM
18th April 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) is appalled to place on record that its Treasurer, journalist K. Rushangan, has received threats demanding the payment of a ransom before 25th April 2008.
K. Rushangan is the Editor of the Tamil language news and information website www.inllanka.com and the Tamil journal Saamadana Nokku (Peace [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by FMM
‘17th April 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) expresses its serious concern on discriminatory practices meted out to media institutions by state institutions, politicians and political parties of late.
As reported by www.lankaenews.com, the JVP (People’s Liberation Front) leadership did not allow a Lanka-e-News journalist to cover a press conference held on 11th [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by FMM
- an appeal received from Amnesty International
Journalist Jayaprakash Sittampalam (J. S.) Tissainaygam has been held in the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) detention centre in Colombo since 7 March. The authorities have claimed that he is held on suspicion of involvement with the armed group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), although he has [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2008 by FMM
Text taken from the ICT4Peace blog’s post here:
Lanka Dissent reports that the website of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is under investigation by the Government of Sri Lanka because “… it directly contributes towards dividing the country and that it promotes the concept of a separate Eelam state.” The full news report is worth quoting:
Investigations are underway [...]
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