Committee to Project Journalists – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Probe urged into Sri Lanka TV star ‘execution’

By pearlaction | June 21, 2011 |

[AFP] A New York-based media rights organisation Tuesday called for an international inquiry into the death of a Sri Lankan television presenter who was allegedly executed by government forces. A documentary by Britain’s Channel 4, “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields”, contained footage of what it said were prisoner executions in the final days of fighting between…

Another Sri Lankan journalist attacked

By pearlaction | June 1, 2009 |

[CPJ] The general secretary of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association, Poddala Jayantha, was abducted in Sri Lanka today, beaten, and dropped by the side of a road in a Colombo suburb, according to a release by the association and two colleagues who spoke to him. The attack came on a busy road during rush…