South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: May, 2016
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on June 15, 2016, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know your activities; to seek solidarity and support from...
Any intended changes to Sri Lankan media must happen under independent Media Commission
Celebrating the World Press Freedom Day on May 4, 2016, the Free Media Movement (FMM) held its first public dialogue emphasizing the importance of executing necessary activities and establishing structures required in the media field under an independent media...
The Road to Resilience: Press Freedom in South Asia 2015-16 report released
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) marked World Press Freedom Day by releasing The Road to Resilience: Press Freedom in South Asia 2015-16. The 14th annual report documents the press freedom situation,...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: March 2016
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on April 15, 2016, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know your activities; to seek solidarity and support from...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: February, 2016
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network(SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on March 15, 2016, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know about your activities; to seek solidarity and support...
Disruptions during court proceeding on Sri Lankan journalist’s disappearance
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka (FMM) in condemning the actions by a Buddhist monk in disrupting the court hearing regarding the abduction of journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda in Homagama, outside...
Punish disrupters of court hearing of Prageeth Eknaligoda disappearance case
The Free Media Movement condemns in strongest terms the unruly behavior of few extremist Buddhist Monks who tried to disrupt the court hearing of the journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda disappearance case. This disrupting took place on 25th January 2016 at the Homagama...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: January 2016
Happy New Year 2016! Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on February 15, 2016, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know about your activities and to...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: December, 2015
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on January 15, 2016, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know what you are doing; to seek solidarity and support...
End Violence Against Women
Today marks, International Day to End Violence Against Women and Girls. Globally, Violence against women and girls remains one of the most serious – and the most tolerated – human rights violations. Female journalists often face threats and violence for simply doing...
OTHER NEWS
Still a Black January
Let us light a lamp for suffering journalists in Sri Lanka to mark three years of the Yaha Palana government, says the Free Media Movement Sri Lankan journalists have suffered in many ways while performing their professional duties and have been demanding that justice...
Ekneligoda, Sugirtharajan and 24th January
For several years, the Free Media Movement (FMM) of Sri Lanka and free expression advocates have dubbed January as “Black January”. This was in the context of a large number of journalists killed, disappeared, assaulted, as well as attacks on media institutions – all...
‘Where is Prageeth?’
The cartoonist disappeared 8 years ago this day. His wife’s struggle to find him shines a light on Sri Lanka’s dismal record on enforced disappearances, Laxmi Murthy reports. It began like any other day for the Eknaligoda family in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Political...
Sri Lanka blocks news website over critical report
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) in expressing concern over the blocking of a news website in Sri Lanka on November 8. The IFJ demands...
Enews වෙබ් අඩවියට එරෙහි අවහිර ඉවත් කළ යුතුයි. – නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරය
ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් වෙබ් අඩවියට ප්රවේශ වීමේ හැකියාව තාක්ෂණිකව අවහිර කිරීම මඟින් එම වෙබ් අඩවියට එරෙහිව නිල නොවන වාරණයක් මේ වන විට ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ ක්රියාත්මකව ඇති බව නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරයේ නිරීක්ෂණය කරයි. මෙම ක්රියාවෙහි වගකීම් පැවරෙන ශ්රී ලංකා විදුලි සංදේශ නියාමන...
E-News shut down should be stopped: Free Media Movement
Free Media Movement observes that an informal censorship is prevalent within the country, by obstructing the technical access to Lanka E News Website. The efforts by the FMM to obtain information from the Tele Communications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL)...
Access to Information an ongoing struggle across the Asia Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU), the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) and its affiliates today observed the second International Day for Universal Access to Information, after resolution (38...