01/19/2011
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Committee to Protect Journalists
In recent years, January has emerged as Sri Lanka's cruelest month for journalists. To commemorate that ugly fact, 100 journalists and press freedom activists gathered Tuesday outside the Fort Railway Station in the capital, Colombo, demanding that the government expedite investigations into a series of attacks and January killings that occurred in both 2009 and 2010.
11/12/2010
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Groundviews
Battered and bleeding, journalist Poddala Jayantha lay on his hospital bed when we visited him on June 2, 2009. He was lucky to be alive after being brutally assaulted by a group of unidentified assailants just the previous day.
...Today, November 12 is a significant day for him. The prestigious Integrity Award 2010 was conferred upon him today by Transparency International at a glittering ceremony in Bangkok.
07/12/2010
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The Guardian (UK)
Local journalists who speak out against human rights abuses fear for their lives and the world press turns a blind eye
It is now over a year since the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, claimed victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). But war is still being waged on the "paradise island" – by the government, against the country's journalists.
02/26/2010
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BBC
The government has accused one of the suspects of being involved in the assassination of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramathunga last year...
In a joint statement to the magistrate on Friday, all six suspects rejected the accusations against them and denied being involved in any crime.
01/07/2010
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Time magazine
A year after the murder of the prominent Sri Lankan editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, the island's independent media is still under siege. An investigation into Wickrematunge's death has gone nowhere, and at least half a dozen other journalists, including his widow, have left the country in fear since his death.