The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in its 2010 Impunity Index, ranks Sri Lanka number four among countries around the world where journalists have been murdered on a regular basis without the killers being prosecuted.
Paris-based Sri Lankan director Pradeepan Raveendran’s film ‘Shadows of Silence’, listed as a French entry, will be presented in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival May 12-23.
Member of Parliament General Sarath Fonseka said there was an attempt to slap a media censorship on his attendance in parliament today and he will raise this issue at the next parliament session.