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CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist

August 31, 2009 1:54 PM EDT

New York, August 31, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award. Tissainayagam, left, sentenced today to 20 years in prison on specious charges of violating anti-terror laws, is one of five journalists who will be honored by CPJ…

AP bureau chief ordered out of Sri Lanka

July 21, 2009 5:21 PM EDT

In response to a report by The Associated Press saying that the agency’s Sri Lanka bureau chief Ravi Nessman left the country on Monday after the government refused to renew his visa, we released this statement…

CPJ Impact

July 17, 2009 2:18 PM EDT

July 2009News from the Committee to Protect Journalists

In Sri Lanka, censorship and a smear campaign

July 14, 2009 2:31 PM EDT

New York, July 14, 2009–The Sri Lankan government is continuing its offensive against the independent news media, blocking domestic access to a news Web site and smearing lawyers who are representing a leading newspaper.

Sri Lanka deports three foreign journalists

June 30, 2009 12:43 PM EDT

Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered Britain’s Channel 4 News Asia correspondent Nick Paton-Walsh, cameraman Matt Jasper, and producer Bessie Du, to leave the country on May 10, 2009, according to Channel 4 and international news reports.

With press council, Sri Lanka revives a repressive tool

June 26, 2009 4:44 PM EDT

There should be no doubt that the government is continuing its offensive against the media following its military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). On Wednesday, Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena confirmed what had been rumored for more than a week: The defunct Press Council, which was put to rest in 2002,…

Special Report: Journalists in Exile 2009

June 17, 2009 12:01 AM EDT

Sri Lankan journalists flee under severe pressure in the past year. Iraq and Somalia, two deadly countries for the press, also rank high in numbers of journalists forced into exile. Hundreds of journalists have been driven into exile this decade. By Karen Phillips

Another Sri Lankan journalist attacked

June 1, 2009 3:44 PM EDT

New York, June 1, 2009–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.

CPJ calls for release of detained Tamil doctors

May 19, 2009 4:57 PM EDT

Following the recent arrest and continued detention of three Tamil doctors–Thangamuttu Sathiyamorthi, Thurairaja Varatharajan and V. Sunmugarajah –by the Sri Lankan military after they supplied local and international news media with causality figures in Vanni during the last stages of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, we issued this statement…