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Sri Lankan journalist missing for 500 days

June 8, 2011 5:36 PM EDT

New York, June 8, 2011–It has been exactly 500 days since Sri Lankan journalist Prageeth Eknelygoda disappeared. He has not been seen by his wife Sandhya Eknelygoda or by the couple’s two teenage sons, Sanjay and Harith, since he left for work around 7:30 a.m., on the morning of January 24, 2010. Sandhya filed a complaint…

Sri Lanka: Ode to a detainee

By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator on May 23, 2011 12:48 PM EDT

On May 18, we posted about the stirring letter Sandhya Eknelygoda, wife of detained journalist Prageeth Eknelygoda sent to Sri Lanka’s First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa. Check out the link: In Sri Lanka, a mother’s plea to the first lady.

Media rights groups to U.N.: Intervene in Sri Lanka case

March 8, 2011 10:07 AM EST

New York, March 8, 2011–Five prominent media rights organizations sent a letter on Monday to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, calling on the U.N. to intervene in the case of Prageeth Eknelygoda, the Sri Lankan columnist and cartoonist for the Lanka eNews website, who disappeared on January 24, 2010. Since then, the letter notes, his wife,…

Sandhya Eknelygoda and sons Sanjay and Harith. (CPJ)

An appeal to help the family of a disappeared journalist

By Maria Salazar-Ferro/Coordinator, Impunity Campaign & Journalist Assistance Program on January 19, 2011 1:35 PM EST

Sri Lankan cartoonist and political reporter Prageeth Eknelygoda disappeared almost one year ago today. He was last seen leaving the Colombo offices of the political Website Lanka eNews, where he worked, late on the evening of Sunday, January 24, 2010. No one has heard from Eknelygoda since.

Sri Lankan journalist’s disappearance remains unexplained

July 23, 2010 3:32 PM EDT

New York, July 23, 2010—Six months after the unexplained disappearance of Sri Lankan journalist and cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda, the government has refused to offer any assistance or provide answers to his wife, Sandhya. The government’s attitude is a clear indicator of the anti-media polices of President Mahindra Rajapaksa, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.Eknelygoda,…

As Sri Lanka election nears, pro-opposition writer vanishes

January 25, 2010 2:04 PM EST

New York, January 25, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the reported disappearance of Prageeth Eknelygoda, a political reporter for the Sri Lankan news Web site Lanka eNews.

CPJ joins call for accountability in attacks on journalists in Sri Lanka

February 9, 2021 9:44 AM EST

The Committee to Protect Journalists joins the Center for Justice and Accountability in calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to take action against impunity in attacks on journalists in Sri Lanka. In a report released today, the Center for Justice and Accountability, with support from CPJ, outlined the Sri Lankan government’s systematic and…

Slovak tycoon acquitted in murder case of Slovak journalist Kuciak and his fiancée

September 4, 2020 12:47 PM EDT

Read and subscribe to The Torch newsletter: CPJ disappointed by verdict in trial for murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak; In Iran, 2020 press freedom awardee sentenced to more than 4 years in jail; Journalist Chin’ono released on bail in Zimbabwe

People protest Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa outside his office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 11, 2020, demanding investigations into disappearances during the civil war. Journalists are wary of the Rajapaksa brothers' return to power. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lankan journalists turn to self-censorship under Rajapaksas as hope for justice fades

By Aliya Iftikhar/CPJ Senior Asia Researcher on April 28, 2020 2:40 PM EDT

Nadesapillai Vithyatharan is a rare survivor, one of the few journalists abducted during Sri Lanka’s civil war who lives to tell the story.

Heroines for Press Freedom

April 27, 2016 8:00 AM EDT

Late on the evening of September 16, 2000, 31-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist Georgy Gongadze left a colleague’s house in Kiev and headed home to where his wife and young daughters awaited him. He never made it.