03/21/2011
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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.
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.
03/09/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : UN agencies to look into the issue of missing Sri Lankan journalist (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
02/18/2011
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Committee to Protect Journalists
Finally, there has been some movement in the case of Prageeth Eknelygoda, at left, the Sri Lankan journalist who disappeared on January 24, 2010. The United Nations says it has received a letter from Eknelygoda's wife, Sandhya, that she had handed over to the U.N. representative in Colombo, Neil Buhne, on January 24, the anniversary of his disappearance.
01/30/2011
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BBC
The family of a missing Sri Lankan journalist highlights his plight at a literary festival in Galle, the BBC's Charles Haviland reports.
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.
03/24/2010
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BBC
A Sri Lankan Tamil has been named foreign journalist of the year at the British Press Awards in London.