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Government-orchestrated threats against exile journalists

Published on 23 March 2012Read

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No sign of progress

With media gagged or threatened, no progress for freedom of information

Published on 28 February 2012Read

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Government blocks critical news websites, says they have to register

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that access to four leading news websites –SriLankaMirror, SriLankaGuardian, Paparacigossip9, and (...)

Published on 8 November 2011 Read

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Death threats against newspaper editor

Reporters Without Borders has written an open letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa urging him to take whatever measures are necessary to protect (...)

Published on 2 November 2011 Read

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Censored website’s editor talks about media control

Reporters Without Borders deplores the action of two Sri Lankan Internet Service Providers in blocking access to the independent news website (...)

Published on 26 October 2011 Read

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President personally phones newspaper’s chairman to threaten him

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the threats that President Mahinda Rajapaksa made in a phone call to the chairman of The Sunday Leader, (...)

Published on 2 August 2011 Read

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Opposition newspaper editor badly beaten in Jaffna, left for dead

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn of yesterday evening’s savage attack on Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, 59, the editor of the (...)

Published on 30 July 2011 Read

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Interview with wife of cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda, who disappeared 500 days ago

Five hundred days have gone by since Prageeth Ekneligoda, a journalist and cartoonist who worked for the Lankaenews website, went missing in (...)

Published on 8 June 2011 Read

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Authorities continue drive to stamp out pro-opposition media

Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday’s refusal by a court in the Colombo suburb of Pugoda to release Shantha Wijesuriya, a journalist with (...)

Published on 29 April 2011 Read