Sri Lanka Media Freedom a Neglected Dimension of Post-War Politics
( December 18, 2012, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Consultations carried out by the IFJ and its partners in recent months, suggest that media freedom is a neglected dimension in Sri Lanka’s post-war politics. Within the wider landscape of diminishing hopes, marked by the fading of early optimism of a peace dividend accruing from the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in May 2009, the country’s media practitioners continue to face formidable difficulties. Overt measures of coercion are less conspicuous than during the war years. But there are fears that free speech is falling victim in a media environment in which political and financial power is deployed to silence dissent.
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Unidentified group
trailing behind a Website Editor resident in UK
Unidentified group
trailing behind a Website Editor resident in UK
This group had gone to the UK after garnering information for a long time , and it is believed based on information that there are two males and a female in that group. This group had left for UK about two weeks ago. In order to silence this Editor , assistance of several residents in Britain have been enlisted , according to our source providing news . -Courtesy Janarala newspaper – 14 th Dec. 2012 Another source of information reporting in relation to this same news stated that the website that is being hounded had in the past published news on the Rajapakse family ailments , which had triggered the wrath and fury of the Rajapakse family members. In this connection , there had been a discussion in the Ministry of a grade 8 qualified Minister . | |
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