Wednesday, 17 December 2008 15:57
Labour Minister Mervyn Silva has given an undertaking to the Supreme Court that he will refrain from harassing or disrupting the duties of media personnel in the future.
His promise came today (Dec. 17th) when the SC took up a fundamental rights petition filed by a camera journalist of MTV Channel (Pvt.) [...]
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[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 15:49 GMT]
The Colombo High Court Monday fixed the inquiry into Journalist Dharmaretnam Sivaram murder case for June 1st next year before Sinhala speaking Jury. The sole suspect, Arumugam Sriskandarajah, was produced in court under heavy security when the case was taken up, legal sources said
Journalist Sivaram was murdered in April [...]
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By Wije Dias
17 December 2008
In an extraordinary outburst last week, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse lashed out at the country’s Supreme Court, accusing it of undermining his powers, and issued a barely disguised threat that the judges could find themselves the target of violent thugs.
Speaking at a public meeting on December 9, Rajapakse bemoaned the [...]
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(lankadissent.org)
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 14:48
Presidential Adviser and former MP, Attorney at Law Vasudewa Nanayakkara has written to the President, himself a lawyer that the official website of the Defence Ministry has published an intimidating report on lawyers who appear for persons suspected of terrorist activities.
“The Report has singled out the Tamil Lawyers who filed cases. [...]
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A Sri Lankan court has ruled that an alleged confession made by senior Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam while detained by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) was voluntary and admissible as evidence in his trial on terrorism charges. The International Federation of Journalists
(IFJ) is informed however that Tissainayagam was forced to make a statement to TID [...]
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Writer and publisher N. Jasikaran and his wife Valarmathi were taken in to custody by the Terrorist Investigation Department (TID), par of the Sri Lankan police force, on the 6th March 2008.
Their colleague senior journalist Tissainayagam was arrested on 7th March after he went to the TID to inquire about Jasikaran and Valarmathi.
Jasikaran and Valarmathi, [...]
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February 2008
Tissainayagam started news-website called OutreachSL.com using a grant from FLICT (Foundation for Local Initiatives in Conflict Transformation). FLICT is a Sri Lankan based grant making body funded by the international community (primarily the German government). FLICT funds civic and government initiatives including the government’s Peace Secretariat.
7 March 2008
Tissainayagam apprehended by TID (Terrorist Investigation Department) [...]
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(lankadissent)Friday, 12 December 2008 16:01
The children’s and Women’s Bureau has withdrawn a charge sheet against director Ashoka Handagama for having used a minor in a nude scene for his film ‘Aksharaya’ or ‘Letter or Fire.’
Colombo additional magistrate Kumari Abeyratne yesterday (Dec. 11th) permitted the withdrawal by the Bureau following advice by the attorney general.
A case [...]
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Threats against a prominent political cartoonist in Sri Lanka over a cartoon published on December 7 in the weekly Lanka yet again highlight the insidious nature of efforts to impose censorship in Sri Lanka, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
Winnie Hettigoda, who is also a writer and television producer, received repeated threats by [...]
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PTI,Colombo, December 9, 2008
The editor of a state-run newspaper in Sri Lanka was sacked on Tuesday after it carried derogatory remarks by the Sri Lankan army chief against some Tamil Nadu politicians sympathetic to the Tamil cause in the ethnic strife-torn island nation.
Dinesh Weerawansa, the editor of the Sunday Observer, has been replaced on Monday [...]
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