News: journalist

07/29/2011 | Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ
New York, July 29, 2011-- Authorities in Sri Lanka should immediately investigate a reported brutal assault on Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, news editor of the Tamil-language daily Uthayan, said the Committee to Protect Journalists.
05/28/2011 | Sunday Times
A Jaffna-based journalist attached with the local newspaper Udayan was assaulted by a group of thugs while on his way to work earlier this morning, his newspaper said.
03/21/2011 | Committee to Protect Journalists
Sandhya Eknelygoda has recently managed to get the attention of the United Nations about the case of the disappearance of her husband, Prageeth, on January 24, 2010. Still, there has been no progress made in learning of his whereabouts.
10/19/2010 | BBC
The family of a Sri Lankan journalist murdered 10 years ago express anger over the failure to find those responsible, writes the BBC's Saroj Pathirana.
07/23/2010 | Committee to Protect Journalists
Prageeth Eknelygoda’s wife, Sandhya, at left, has been in close contact with CPJ since his disappearance on the night of January 24, just two days before the hotly contested Sri Lankan presidential elections. She was a primary source for our May investigative report, In Sri Lanka, no peace dividend for press. As we noted in our alert today, she has started to organize prayer vigils at Hindu and Buddhist temples and Christian churches around the country, trying to pressure the government into helping her locate her husband. Although they have had no word from him, she and her two sons, 16 and 13, are convinced Eknelygoda, below, is still alive.
07/23/2010 | Committee to Protect Journalists
Prageeth Eknelygoda’s wife, Sandhya, at left, has been in close contact with CPJ since his disappearance on the night of January 24, just two days before the hotly contested Sri Lankan presidential elections. She was a primary source for our May investigative report, In Sri Lanka, no peace dividend for press. As we noted in our alert today, she has started to organize prayer vigils at Hindu and Buddhist temples and Christian churches around the country, trying to pressure the government into helping her locate her husband. Although they have had no word from him, she and her two sons, 16 and 13, are convinced Eknelygoda, below, is still alive.
02/03/2010 | Lanka Journal
A senior officer in the Sri Lankan army has been arrested in connection with the murder of a top campaigning journalist.