Friday, November 9, 2012

SRI LANKA: PRESS FREEDOM

The newsmakers are the news

But Poddala Jayantha, secretary of the working journalists association, claimed that the authorities had failed to identify the assaulters, and instead indiscriminately targeted all Rupavahini staff. Soon after the Rupavahini incident unidentified goons launched a vicious midnight raid on the house of another journalist, Jayantha. It escaped no one that Jayantha was among those present in the Rupavahini compound when Silva, disheveled and humiliated, was escorted out of it. The reprisals are just now making as much news as the conflicting reports of casualties on either side.

A statement issued by Jacqueline Park, Asia Pacific director of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), said, “Sri Lanka's government must take concrete steps to ensure the safety and protection of journalists in the conduct of their work, starting with public reprimands for government members who verbally and physically attack the media, and give directives to local authorities to investigate and act on attacks against journalists across the island, including the attacks on Rupavahini staff.”


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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