Government officials attack journalists

 
19th July 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) is extremely displeased to report the assault of two more journalists and the harassment of another by government officials.
The journalists were covering the illegal demolishing of hundreds of homes in Colombo on 18th July under the guise of providing security for the South Asian [...]

Intimidation and harassment of journalists continue unabated in Sri Lanka

 
18th July 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Given the number of reports on the intimidation and harassment of journalists the Free Media Movement (FMM) has received over the last two weeks, it is apparent that the Cabinet Subcommittee appointed by the government to look into the grievances of media community is powerless to foster media freedom [...]

AI compaign for Jasikaran and valarmathi

Vettivel Jasikaran (m), writer and publisher
Valarmathi Jasikaran (f), his wife
Vettivel and Valarmathi Jasikaran were brought before a Magistrates’ Court in Colombo on 30 June 2008, and detained for a further three months without being charged. They are still in the custody of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) in Colombo, and Vettivel has stated in court [...]

Attacks against media in Sri Lanka: Whither democracy?

 
1st July 2008: The Free Media Movement (FMM) notes with dismay the dramatic and irrepressible decline in media freedom in Sri Lankan since 2005 under the Rajapakse administration. We have for years repeatedly spoken out against the attacks against media and journalists by the LTTE in areas under its control. It is well known that [...]

Assault on Journalist Mr. Namal Perera

30th June 2008
The Free Media Movement (FMM) is shocked and outraged at the brutal assault of former TNL News Director and currently Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) employee Namal Perera and a friend this evening (Monday, 30th June 2008). Mr. Perera and his friend, Mr. Mahendra Ratnaweera, a Sri Lankan national working at the British [...]

IFJ Supports Media Dialogue in Sri Lanka

 
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) fully supports the efforts of the five media organisations in Sri Lanka to encourage dialogue with the country’s political parties in order to resolve the dangers and difficulties confronting journalists and media institutions in the country.
The five organisations representing journalists in Sri Lanka – the Free Media Movement (FMM), [...]

State media level dangerous allegation against Sri Lanka Press Institute

 
Free Media Movement expresses its serious concern that State controlled media has levelled dangerous allegations against Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) without verifying the story from SLPI.
State controlled Sinhala language newspaper ‘Dinamina’ considered as one of the mouth pieces of the government said in a lead story  that “the police intelligence has received information saying [...]

SLPI refutes allegations made by

Twenty-nine IFEX members alert UN secretary-general to statements by government and military

 
 
Ki-moon
Secretary-General
United Nations
Secretariat Building, Room S-3800
New York, NY 10017
Dear Sir,
Under terms of UNSCR 1738 on the protection of journalists in conflict, we write to draw your attention to the alarming situation in Sri Lanka, where statements associated with the government and the military have, in our view, put journalists in grave danger.
In commentaries published on its [...]

පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය - 2008.06.19

ශ්‍රී ලංකා වෘත්තීය පත්‍රකලාවේදීන්ගේ සංගමය (SLWJA)
මාධ්‍යසේවක වෘත්තීය සමිති සම්මේලනය (FMETU)
ශ්‍රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම් ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ සංසදය (SLMMF)
ශ්‍රී ලංකා දෙමළ ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ සන්ධානය(SLTJA)
නිදහස් මාධ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරය (FMM)
අමාත්‍ය මර්වින් සිල්වා මහතාට එරෙහිව ජනමාධ්‍ය සංවිධාන මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂම ඉදිරියේ පැමිණිල්ලක් ගොනු කරයි 
 
කම්කරු අමාත්‍ය මර්වින් සිල්වා අමාත්‍යවරයා ඇතුළු මැර පිරිසක් ජාතික රූපවාහිනියට ඇතුළු වී එහි ප්‍රවාත්ති අධ්‍යක්‍ෂවරයාට පහර දීමට එරෙහිව මාධ්‍ය සංවිධාන [...]