The treatment meted out to Tamil parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran by the Sri Lanka Police at the rally in Jaffna
More than 200 media workers, politicians and activists from North and South joined hands at Jaffna Bus Station staging a protest Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. till noon against the brutal assault last month on Gnanasundaram Kuganathan, the chief news editor of Uthayan daily in Jaffna and against the prevailing suppression of freedom of expression in Jaffna. Five Colombo-based media organisations arranged the protest together with the journalists in Jaffna. On Monday, the Sri Lankan Police had claimed that they have arrested the suspect at Kalubowila Hospital in Colombo. However, the media sources in Jaffna told TamilNet Tuesday that the said person was not the real culprit.
Following international pressure demanding Colombo for an investigation, Rajapaksa regime came with a news item that the SL president had asked his Inspector General of Police to submit a report on the assault on the Jaffna journalist. Full Story>>>
