- 16 February 2013
'The Sunday Leader' journalist escapes assassination attempt
In yet another attack targeting scribes in Sri Lanka, a journalist was shot inside his home in Colombo by armed men around midnight on Friday. The Sunday Leader journalist Faraz Shaukatally narrowly escaped death....
- 07 February 2013
Newspaper distributor attacked in garrison town of Jaffna
Latest in the series of unceasing attack on media and media workers in Sri Lanka, a distributor of the Jaffna-based Tamil newspaper on Thursday (07) has been brutally attacked while the newspaper bundles and the motorcycle.....
- 09 July 2012
Rights groups flay Sri Lanka’s bid to defend attacks on media
Local and international media rights groups on Sunday (08) strongly condemned Sri Lankan Foreign Minister’s bid in Tokyo to defend and cover up his regime’s protracted terror campaign on media saying that “nothing happens to......
- 29 June 2012
SRI LANKA: Journalists arrested following raids in capital
Several journalists have been arrested following a daylight raid on two news websites in Sri Lanka. This major move to curb online media critical of the government comes two days after the government's decision to block local access.....
- 20 July 2012
Sri Lankan sleuths grill Jaffna-based newspaper editor
In yet another attempt to further silence the media and curtail the already worsened media freedom in the country, a special team of sleuths attached to Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday (18) has grilled.......
- 06 July 2012
Sri Lanka: A journalist's abduction attempt thwarted
Unidentified men tried to abduct yet another web journalist on Thursday (05) on a busy street in Colombo while he was returning home from work. Shantha Wijesooriya, an investigative web journalist attached to srilankaxnews.com.....
- 23 June 2012
Sri Lanka: Senior journalists’ removal creates ripples
The recent dismissal of the Editor of Sri Lanka’s youngest English-language daily, ‘Ceylon Today’, has caused ripples within media circles in the country. Last week, the management of the newspaper arbitrarily removed two.....
