Daily Archives: January 20, 2011
Responding to a facile appeal: Galle Literary Festival and the freedom of expression
The Editors of Groundviews received via email this morning intimation of an international appeal made by Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), a network of exiled Sri Lankan journalists. The Galle literary festival appeal notes inter alia,
January 20, 2011
Arundhati Roy joins call to boycott Lanka literary festival
Controversial Indian author Arundhati Roy has joined fellow writers in calling for a boycott of a literary festival in Sri Lanka to protest alleged rights abuses and suppression of dissent in the country.
January 20, 2011
