Lasantha Wickrematunge

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Thousands gather in Bratislava, Slovakia, on February 21, 2025, to mark the seventh anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee. (Photo: AFP/Tomas Benedikovik)

Championing justice for journalists: The Impunity Action List

When Ján Kuciak, an investigative journalist who exposed corruption and tax fraud, was murdered alongside his fiancee in Slovakia in 2018, a national outcry ensued with 65,000 people hitting the streets and the subsequent ouster of the Slovak prime minister. Justice in Kuciak’s case is still in process but in February 2026, well over 1,000…

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New details raise questions about whether Sri Lankan president was complicit in the killing of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge

Nishantha Silva is obsessed with details. The missing notebook. The unusual telephone number. The motorcycle tossed into a lake and the person who knew exactly where to find it.  Those details and others are the pointillist dots of color that Silva, formerly a detective with Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department, has assembled into a vivid…

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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

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

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