Media persons enjoying the ‘vipaka’ (results) of their sins blame me -Army Commander

(Lanka-e-News, July 19, 2008, 11.20 PM) Media persons attempt to sling mud on the images of the Army and the Army Commander and when they enjoy the ‘vipaka’ (results) of their sins, they blame me, says Army Commander Sarath Fonseka in an interview with Sunday ‘Lakbima’ Sinhala newspaper.
Commenting on the incidents of threatening to media [...]

Sri Lanka ignores attacks on journalists

 
By Basil Fernando
Hong Kong, China — The Sri Lanka Press Institution and the Newspaper Publishers Association are offering a reward of Rs. 5 million (about US$50,000) for information on the assault of journalist Namal Perera. Perera, who works for the SLPI, and Mahindra Ratnaweera, a political officer with the British High Commission, were severely assaulted [...]

In Sri Lanka’s version of the “war on terror,” it is the media that has paid the highest price.

 
 by Kshama Ranawana
July 4, 2008
The message is simple. Report on matters perceived as national security and you will be considered an enemy of the state.
That’s the warning on the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry website, in an article entitled, “Deriding the war heroes for a living - the ugly face of ‘Defence Analysts’ in Sri Lanka,” [...]

Kathankudi journalists launch protest strike

 
Journalists in Kathankudi have commenced a strike following threats to two journalists reporting from the area during the tense situation last week.
In a letter issued by the Kathankudi Media Forum (KMF), journalists comprising T.L.M. Joufer Khan, M.S.M. Noordeen, A.L.M. Fazlulhaq, Moulavi S.M.M. Musthapha, M.I. Rahmathullah, and M.A.C. Jalees stated they were psychologically affected due to [...]

Sri Lanka puts reporters’ lives at risk-media body

 
GENEVA, June 6 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan government statements accusing critical journalists of treachery in the civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels could encourage “extreme violence” against them, an international media body said on Friday.
The Brussels-based International News Safety Institute (INSI) said the latest attacks on reporters condemning many of them as “enemies of the [...]

A malicious “patriotism” and its impact on media and journalists

June 6, 2008 at 12:26 pm  by Ruwanminee Wickremasinghe
Journalists in Sri Lanka are trying to recollect whether they had a worse time under the regime of President Ranasinghe Premadasa when during the height of a crackdown on a JVP insurrection many media personnel were killed or simply disappeared, or if the regime of President Mahinda [...]

Keith Noyahr and Sri Lanka’s rejection at the UNHRC

 
Daily Mirror Opinion ,Monday, May 26, 2008
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=15752
Keith Noyahr like all journalists in the country carries no weapons. 
He like all in his fraternity believes his only duty to be to address the wrongs taking place in the country. They criticize regimes that deny people their rights and abuse powers over and above they are granted. How do [...]

US raps Lanka for allowing assaults on media persons

 
PK Balachandran
COLOMBO: The United States on Saturday rapped the Sri Lankan government for allowing goons to assault media persons with impunity.
Coming close on the heels of the brutal assault on and the abduction of Keith Noyahr, Associate Editor and Defence Correspondent of ‘The Nation weekly by an unidentified gang, the US statement said some of [...]

Were Noyahr’s abductors trying to get a lead on his `sources’?

 
by Shamindra Ferdinando -The Island
As Thursday’s abduction and torture of Keith Noyahr, Associate Editor of The Nation, drew widespread condemnation, Sunday Island inquiries revealed his tormentors had been taken him to Dompe and then brought him back to his Dehiwela residence after Rivira Media Corporation triggered a frantic search for him.
Well informed sources said the [...]

Sri Lankan journalist abducted, beaten: rights group