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Armed attack on Tamil newspaper’s distribution office in Kilinochchi

Reacting to April 3 armed attack on the Tamil newspaper Uthayan in the northern city of Kilinochchi, Reporters Without Borders and its partner (...)

Published on 5 April 2013 Read

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka censors BBC’s programmes on UN Human Rights Council

The state-owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) has repeatedly censored its FM retransmission of the BBC’s Tamil-language broadcasts (...)

Published on 27 March 2013 Read

Sri Lanka

Desire to silence outspoken journalists seen in murder attempt

Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, firmly condemn an attempt to murder Sunday Leader (...)

Published on 18 February 2013 Read

Sri Lanka

Call for truth about cartoonist’s disappearance three years ago

On the the third anniversary of the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda, a freelance cartoonist and political analyst who worked for the (...)

Published on 24 January 2013 Read

Sri Lanka

Interview with editor who was threatened by defence secretary

Reporters Without Borders condemns the threats and insults that defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the president’s brother, made against Sunday (...)

Published on 12 July 2012 Read

Sri Lanka

Eight online journalists and an office assistant freed but investigation continues

Reporters Without Borders is relieved that the eight SriLankaMirror and SriLankaXNews journalists and an office assistant arrested on 29 June (...)

Published on 4 July 2012 Read

Sri Lanka

Ceylon Today editor in chief forced to quit, reasons still unclear

Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the reasons that led the management of the newspaper Ceylon Today to force its editor in chief (...)

Published on 22 June 2012 Read

Sri Lanka

Government-orchestrated threats against exile journalists

Reporters Without Borders deplores a government-orchestrated campaign of threats and smears against journalists and human rights activists that (...)

Published on 23 March 2012 Read

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