29March2023
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka: Tamils brave military intimidation to observe ‘Maaveerar Naal’
Come November, the Sri Lankan Military establishment and Police go into extra oppressive mode and all out to ensure that Tamils are intimidated and their right to remember their kith and kin is..........
Interviews
Interviews
'Sri Lanka and Myanmar are ethnocratic states' - Dr Maung Zarni
'Enemy of the State' screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later. "These publications ar...
Politics & Current Affairs
Call to probe Aussie police over credibly accused Sri Lanka war criminal
Australia's Federal Police came under heavy questioning for its failure to act a...
Media
Fake intel used to ban Tamil journalist on Sri Lanka’s 74th Independence Day
Police in Sri Lanka have submitted misleading ‘intelligence’ to secure a court o...
Human Rights
Excavations to resume on Sri Lanka’s largest mass grave
A court in north-western Sri Lanka has ordered to recommence investigations - ha...
International Affairs
X-Press Pearl disaster: Indian fisherman alarmed over marine pollution
Fishermen along the South Indian coast have expressed fears after the deadly tox...
Politics & Economy
Tamil resistance lives on despite Sri Lanka’s ban on 'Maaveerar Naal'
Over the three decades that it has been celebrated, Maaveerar Naal has undergone...
Human Rights
Alive from the abyss: continuing abductions and torture in Sri Lanka
A new generation of young Tamil men are being picked up and tortured by the secu...
Media & Culture
Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's "predator emeritus" on rebound
Many local journalists feel discomfort when they hear the name Gotabaya Rajapaks...
Reflections
Dharmaretnam Sivaram: 'Appa died doing what he loved most'
This year marks the 15th anniversary of our father’s death and to this day, no o...
Press Releases
JDS condemns attacks on journalists following Sri Lanka Easter Massacre
Journaists for Democracy in Sri Lanka denounces the spiteful hate campaign direc...
From Our News Blog
 |
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka |
- JDS is the Sri Lankan partner organization of international media rights group, Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The launching of this website was made possible by the EU’s European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), of which Reporters Without Borders is a beneficiary.
