Daily Archives: May 6, 2009
RSF writes to IMF on Media Freedom in Sri Lanka
Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn Managing Director International Monetary Fund Washington DC United States Paris, 5 May 2009 Dear Managing Director Strauss-Kahn, Reporters Without Borders would like to draw your attention to … Continue reading
STATEMENT BY SONALI SAMARASINGHE WICKREMATUNGE
WIDOW OF LASANTHA WICKREMATUNGE, 2009 UNESCO WORLD PRESS FREEDOM LAUREATE “Your Highness, Mr Director-General, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of my late husband and fellow journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunge, … Continue reading
‘State terror’ waging ‘racist war’ – Sonali Wickrematunge
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 May 2009, 1 ] The UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2009 has been awarded posthumously to Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, assassinated by a government death-squad in … Continue reading
RSF writes to IMF on Lanka’s press freedom
Reporters without Borders wrote to International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday about what it termed as the “lamentable” state of press freedom in Sri Lanka at a time … Continue reading
