Shoba Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

India denies public exhibition of film on life of Tamil journalist Shoba

June 4, 2015 11:05 AM EDT

India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), which regulates the public exhibition of films in the country, declined to certify the film Porkalathil Oru Poo on May 27, 2015, citing the possibility that it could harm “friendly relations with foreign States,” the English-language daily The Hindu reported.

Integrity vs. authenticity in video journalism

December 13, 2012 2:20 PM EST

Back in November 2010, Britain’s Channel 4 broadcast a leaked video that appears to show men in Sri Lankan military uniforms executing bound prisoners, the camera panning across a series of bodies laid out in a ditch. Family and friends identified one of those bodies as that of Tamil Tiger TV newscaster Shoba, also known…

Tamil journalist bound, shot, during Sri Lankan civil war

June 20, 2011 5:06 PM EDT

New York, June 20, 2011–Video footage of a Tamil journalist apparently executed in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war underscores the need for an urgent international inquiry, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.