Rajapaksa regime step up crackdown on Tamil social media and journalists

Sri Lanka has increased its crackdown and intimidation of the Tamil media soon after the UN Human Rights Council voted to help investigate Sri Lanka on human rights abuses and gather further evidence..............

Sri Lanka police detain tortured journalist for obtaining legal assistance

Police in Sri Lanka has detained a journalist who went to give a statement about his abduction and torture by a group of armed men. On 17 March, police officers of the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) have................

Norway citizen detained in Sri Lanka for alleged assault on journalists

A Norwegian citizen of Sri Lankan origin is among two in custody for allegedly assaulting two Tamil journalists investigating illegal logging of teak in northeastern Sri Lanka. 25 years old Thishanthan Rajendra from.......

Free online screening exposing British hand in Sri Lanka’s war crimes

A documentary film investigating the British involvement in Sri Lanka’s war crimes will be released online today (8). KEENIE MEENIE directed by Phil Miller and Lou Macnamara will be live streamed by Declassified UK.........

Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist harassed by police twice in two days [UPDATED]

A journalist in eastern Sri Lanka in being continuously intimidated by police who has been visiting his house twice within two days, soon after the UN high commissioner released a damning report on Sri Lanka......

Sri Lanka: Journalists fear for their lives after assault by illegal loggers (VIDEO)

Two journalists who are in hospital after been violently beaten up and threatened with death while investigating an illegal logging racket, fear for their safety as the assailants are roaming free with apparent.........

Police obstruct Tamil journalists carrying out their duty in northern Sri Lanka

Police spies in the war affected Northern Sri Lanka have obstructed journalists carrying out their duty and intimidated Tamils remembering the dead. Tamil people had assembled at the Oddusuddan Sivan...........

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