09/30/2011
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Bernama
The Sri Lankan police said on Friday that they had seized over 20,000 copies of a pro-opposition newspaper and had also arrested five people.
08/15/2011
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news.lk
The Northern Province Senior DIG Gamini Silva has said that the main suspect in the attack on the News Editor of Uthayan newspaper Gnanasunderam Kuganathan has been taken into police custody this morning. He has said that a special police team was deployed from Jaffna to apprehend the suspect while at the Kalubowila Hospital in Colombo.
08/12/2011
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The Island
"It appears to us that a new and menacing element is crashing into the political scene, which element all responsible persons should determine to eradicate. If unchecked ,this deplorable violence cannot but harm and even destroy the democratic foundation on which our present society is built, whatever short term gain to one party or another....A special responsibility must lie on a government that law and order is maintained, and in particular that opposition demonstrators are not attacked by government supporters. For supporters of a government in power often feel that they can flout the law with impunity, and some leaders may even encourage them to do so. Similarly, there are always some police officers who are reluctant to be firm with those they believe to enjoy political patronage."
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.
08/07/2011
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The Nation
Cabinet Spokesman and Media and Information Minister Kheliya Rambukwella answering a query by journalists as to what action he has taken following the assault on Jaffna based Uthayan News Editor Gnanasunderam Kuhanathan, quipped in lighter vain that all what he could do was to visit him in hospital with tender king coconuts.
08/03/2011
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The Hindu
Barely three days after Sri Lanka's top cop, Inspector General N.K.Ilangakoon, was asked to investigate the attack on a senior journalist of a Tamil newspaper based in Jaffna, he submitted an interim report on the incident.
07/29/2011
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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.
07/21/2011
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Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Sri Lanka’s reputation as an Indian Ocean paradise may hold true for determined holidaymakers, but for the sober-minded this image has been shattered in recent months.
07/20/2011
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Committee to Protect Journalists
Two journalists for Radio Netherlands Worldwide have gone public with their story of Sri Lankan government harassment, which ultimately drove them out of the country last week. The episode had been reported on a few Tamil websites, but I had been unable to confirm the story independently.