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“Time magazine stopped at Customs” By Sanjaya Dassanayake, Upatissa Perera...
Time magazine, carrying a cover story comparing the Myanmar Buddhist Monk Wirathu and his organization ‘Buddhist 969′ to the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), has been withheld by customs at the Bandaranaike...
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Northern Provincial Election 2013: Mainstream print media front-page coverage...
7 Ocotber 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) election in Sri Lanka was held on the 21 September 2013 for the first time in twenty-five years. The TNA won a total of 30...
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“Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth Summit and the international media” by JS...
In the run up to the Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka there is burgeoning media attention on the human rights abuses and suspected war crimes the host nation has tried to conceal. Many hope the...
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“Silencing the Press: An Analysis Of Violence Against the Media in Sri Lanka”...
We share a report published by Tamil Against Genocide on media violence and the question of race and ethnicity of journalists/media employees in Sri Lanka. Silencing-The-Press-Nov.06.2013 source: Tamil...
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“Censorship and threat of violence hang over Sri Lanka’s press” by James...
Sri Lanka’s bloody 25-year civil war earned the south Asian island a reputation as one of the world’s least safe places to be a journalist. Reporters faced extensive censorship and the threat of...
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“Commonwealth & human rights principles in Sri Lanka, in the weeks before...
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is due to start tomorrow. The last few weeks has seen series of violations of Human Rights and Commonwealth principles in Sri Lanka, which is the...
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“Channel 4 Team Quits Sri Lanka Citing ‘Unacceptable Intimidation’” by...
The controversial British broadcaster Channel 4 has decided to leave Sri Lanka due to “unacceptable intimidation” that prevents them from reporting, the channel’s news editor says. via:...
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“Let’s stand together; Death threats will not deter us –FMM” by Sunil Jayasekara
“We, the Free Media Movement (FMM) and Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance (SLMTA) are here to day to inform you about the harassments faced by out fellow Tamil media journalists yesterday and today (26...
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“Sabotage of media workshop and death threats are govt. orchestrated – SLWJA”...
“The Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) condemns in the strongest terms yet another act of intimidation of media by the government orchestrated mobs who sabotaged a planned media...
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“Don’t say we are bad boys next time – Thugs warn SLPI” Sri Lanka Brief
“Leader of the gang who disrupted the media workshop to be held in the auditorium of the Sri Lanka Press Institute warned that ” if this institute allows any such training in the future done say we are...
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“Relevance of Freedom of Association in 1992 and today: Ratawawi Peramuna and...
What is the situation today? Freedom of association is under its worst threats in independent Sri Lanka, despite the attempts by state media and “Para state propaganda units” to deny it. Those who...
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“Verifying user generated content online: Rough guides in Tamil, Sinhala and...
The poor mainstream media coverage of the anti-Muslim riots in Aluthgama in June 2014 was a vacuum filled, in large-part, by content published in real-time and for weeks after the violence on the web...
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“In Sri Lanka, ‘fear and insecurity’ for journalists, activists” by UCAnews
On October 2 and 3, more than 300 journalists, lawyers and activists demonstrated in central Colombo, calling for an end to attacks against members of their professions. They say the threats have...
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“The Abuse And Pathetic State Of The State Media” by Nimal Bhareti
A word about the editor of the Daily News Rajpal Abeynayake which is in no way intended to be personal to him. Rajpal in his editorials uses gutter language sometimes bordering on vulgarity to attack...
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“Challenging the West’s Narrative on Sri Lanka’s ‘Victory for Democracy'” by...
Of the many pieties that have been promoted in the Western media in the aftermath of Maithripala Sirisena’s victory over incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in the recent Sri Lankan presidential election, none...
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