Daily Archives: January 8, 2010
Vasantham jams Shakthi, says MTV
MTV yesterday (8) filed a Writ application in the Court of Appeal challenging an impugned order to shut down the transmission station of Shakthi TV in the Jaffna peninsula.
Petitioner Company in its petition filed by Sudath Perera Associates has challenged the impugned order of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
It cited Minister of Mass Media & Information Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Ministry Secretary, the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC), the Independent Television Network (ITN), the Attorney General and others as Respondents. Counsel Sanjeeva Jayawardane with Sandamali Chandrasekera will appear for the Petitioner Company.
Shakthi (TV Jaffna) challenges shut down order
A free-to-air private television network “MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd” today filed a writ application in the Court of Appeal challenging an impugned order to shut down the transmission station of Shakthi TV in the Jaffna peninsula.
Petitioner Company in its petition filed by Sudath Perera Associates has challenged the impugned order of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
Lasantha: The Courageous Editor who Fearlessly spoke Truth to Power
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj
It was on January 8th last year that Lasantha Wickrematunga the Editor of “The Sunday Leader” in Colombo was killed by “unknown” assassins. He was my colleague, editor, friend and above all a kindred soul.
How I miss him.
There is big vacuum in the media scene after his departure
One year later in Sri Lanka little has changed
By Bob Dietz/Asia Program Coordinator Lasantha Wickramatunga
Even by Sri Lanka’s standards, January 2009 was a brutal month for journalists.
On January 6, on a quiet road on the outskirts of Colombo, the country’s main independently owned TV station, Sirasa TV, was raided at 2:05 a.m. by 15 to 20 masked armed men working with military precision. At 2:35:31 they detonated an explosion, possibly a claymore mine, a military-style antipersonnel mine set off by an electrical charge through wires leading to the device.
And at around 6:40 a.m. on January 23, according to Upali Tennakoon, editor of the Sinhala-language, pro-government weekly Rivira, four men on two motorcycles forced his car to stop and smashed its window. One attacker used a metal bar with a single sharp point to hit Tennakoon in the face and in his hands when he put them up to defend himself, he said. He and his wife, Dhammika, were driving to his office at the time of the attack.
The President is answerable for Lasantha’s murder
“Lasantha’s assassination was pre-planned and a calculated exercise of the state. A crime committed so overtly in the broad day-light in the heart of Colombo, leaving behind traces of sufficient evidence of the crime. These evidences have been systematically sidelined by the government machinery.”
Wickramatunge Killers Remain Unpunished In Sri Lanka
The International Federation of Journalists notes with deep anger and sorrow, that a full year after the daylight murder of Lasantha Wickramatunge in a busy Colombo street, there has been little credible progress in the investigation into an event that caused worldwide outrage.
