- 13 April 2013
UPDATE: Gunmen attack Jaffna Uthayan newspaper office
An unknown group of gunmen has carried out a pre-dawn attack on the Uthayan newspaper main office and set fire to the printing machines in the heart of the heavily-guarded Northern Jaffna town on Saturday.......
- 13 April 2013
BREAKING NEWS: Gunmen attack Jaffna newspaper office, torch printing machines
An unknown group of gunmen has carried out a pre-dawn attack on the Uthayan newspaper main office and set fire to the printing machines in the heart of the heavily-guarded Northern Jaffna Peninsula, a top journalist.....
- 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....
- 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.......
- 03 April 2013
'Uthayan' newspaper office in military garrison town attacked
At least four media workers were injured when an unknown group of men stormed a Jaffna-based newspaper office in the military garrison town of Kilinochchi in the early hours of Wednesday....
- 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......
