by SAMSN Admin | Mar 3, 2017 | Right to Information, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s new Right to Information (RTI) Law, adopted through a rare Parliamentary consensus in June 2016, became fully operational on 3 February 2017. From that day on, the island nation’s 21 million citizens could exercise their legal right to public information...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Impunity, Release, Sri Lanka
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Free Media Movement (FMM), Sri Lanka, in lauding the Sri Lanka Police for arresting an army officer and two soldiers over the 2008 abduction of and assault on a prominent journalist. The Crime Investigation...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Release, Sri Lanka
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය (2017. 02. 19) බොහෝ කල් ගත වී නමුත් ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්යවේදී කීත් නොයාර් පැහැර ගෙන ගොස් දැඩි සේ පහර දී අත්හැර දමා යෑම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සැක පිට හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ මේජර් බුලත්වත්ත සහ සැරයන්වරයන් දෙදෙනෙකු අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම ගැන ප්රසාදය පළ කරන නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරය,...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 10, 2017 | Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) Sri Lanka in condemning the seizing of a drone camera used by the Hiru TV to report on a demonstration in Mirijjawila, Hambantota on January 7. Hiru TV used the drone...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 9, 2017 | Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
While vehemently condemning the seizing of drone camera of the Hiru TV while reporting the protest against Sri Lanka-China joint venture in Mirijjawila, Hambantota, the Free Media Movement states that it is a grave violation of professional rights of journalists. The...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 8, 2017 | Impunity, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Eight years after the murder of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, his colleague Dilrukshi Handunnetti remembers all that he stood for: truth, courage, and justice. Way back in 2007, when I was assigned one of the biggest investigative stories I was ever...
