08/09/2011
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Radio Netherlands Worldwide
“If you are not with the government, you become an instant traitor to the country. They said I should be killed; very clearly, they said I should be killed.” In his 30-year career as a reporter and editor in Sri Lanka, Sunanda Deshapriya says he was non-political, but his reporting on the 25-year civil war and human rights violations in the country rubbed the government the wrong way.
08/02/2011
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BBC
Reflecting the political divide in Sri Lanka, pro- and anti-government demonstrations have been taking place in the capital, Colombo. A pro-government rally was held in protest against the British broadcaster Channel 4 which has recently aired two programmes alleging that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes. In a smaller demonstration, journalists blamed pro-government elements for severely beating up a Tamil journalist in northern Sri Lanka last week.
05/03/2011
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BusinessWeek
Intensifying conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan pose threats to the lives of journalists, while dangers have eased in Sri Lanka and Nepal with the end of fighting there, a media group said Tuesday.
04/28/2011
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BBC
A magistrate's court in Sri Lanka suspends the operation of the pro-opposition LankaeNews.com website.
04/07/2011
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BBC
LankaeNews News Editor Bennet Rupasinghe was released on bail by courts despite opposition by the Police.
04/07/2011
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BBC
A court in Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka grants bail to the editor of a news website critical of the government who was arrested last month.
03/31/2011
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AFP
Sri Lankan police remanded in custody on Thursday an employee of an anti-government website over allegations that he made threats to the brother of an arson suspect.
03/28/2011
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BBC Sinhala
Sri Lanka president says that he will make sure that media will be able to visit and report freely from north.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has questioned the director general of Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) on preventing foreign journalists visiting northern Sri Lanka.
03/10/2011
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AFP, Agence France-Presse
Media rights organisations on Wednesday asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to intervene in Sri Lanka over a cartoonist who disappeared 14 months ago amid threats against independent journalists.
03/09/2011
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Committee to Protect Journalists
Tuesday's letter from CPJ and four other groups to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apparently had some impact. The Canadian Press reported today that Ban has asked the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO, which oversees press freedom, to look into the case of Prageeth Eknelygoda, a Sri Lankan columnist and cartoonist missing for more than a year.