Monthly Archives: October, 2011
Network chairman, general manager receive death threats – FMM
The Free Media Movement (FMM) is deeply concerned about the death threats made against TNL Chairman Shan Wickremesinghe and the network’s general manager, Sudath Jayasundara, by individuals with close connections … Continue reading
Censor Board to monitor TV programmes
Damith Wickremasekera New legislation would be enacted next month to set up a separate Board of Censors to monitor locally produced and imported television programmes, Cultural and Aesthetic Affairs Minister … Continue reading
Five media condemns threats to TNL TV/Radio
Five local media organizations have strongly condemned death threats to TNL chairman Shan Wickremesinghe and general manager Sudath Jayasundara In a statement, they say the threats were made by several … Continue reading
Fredericka says faces death threats
Editor of ‘The Sunday Leader’ Fredericka Jansz complained to Mirihana Police around 7.30 last night (Oct. 27) that she has been threatened with death. According to police spokesman SSP Ajith … Continue reading
Shan summoned to CCD
Chairman of Telshan Network (Pvt) Ltd., Shan Wickremesinghe has been summoned by the Colombo Crime Division to obtain a statement, reports say. Speaking to ‘Sri Lanka Mirror’, Mr. Wickremesinghe said … Continue reading
Sri Lanka: Blocking Lanka e News: An Indication of the Regime’s Fear of an Informed Citizenry – NfR
NfR – Net working for rights in Sri Lanka -Exile network for media and human rights in Sri Lanka Press release/ 27 Oct 2011 NfR Sri Lanka, a network of … Continue reading
Censored website’s editor talks about media control
Reporters Without Borders deplores the action of two Sri Lankan Internet Service Providers in blocking access to the independent news website Lanka-e-News and calls on them to explain themselves. If … Continue reading
The Complaint made to Police on Saturday 22nd Oct 2011 @ about 11.00 am by Shan Wickramasinghe .
I, Shanthilal Nilkanth Wickremesinghe aged 63 Sinhala Buddhist, Chairman – TNL TV residing at Dampe, Piliyandala. I wish to state me and my Director / General Manager Mr. Sudath Jayasundara … Continue reading
Blocking of Sri Lanka News Portal Continues a Record of Victimisation – IFJ
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its Sri Lankan affiliates in condemning the continued blocking of the news portal Lanka-e-News by internet service providers in Sri Lanka since October … Continue reading
Advice sought to ban anti-govt. websites
Media ministry secretary W.B. Ganegala has sought the attorney general’s advice to act against websites that publish news detrimental to Sri Lanka and the government. Mr. Ganegala has told Hiru … Continue reading
Tough new laws against porn
The Justice Ministry will introduce tough legislation to strictly control the import, distribution, production, exhibiting, telecasting, printing or broadcasting of pornographic material in Sri Lanka, a senior official said today. … Continue reading
“Money Laundering” Jayaweera threatens Shan Wickremesinghe, head TNL TV & radio
One of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s racketeer friends, the head of Triad Advertising and Derana Network, Dilith Jayaweera also known as “Money Laundering” Jayaweera has threatened the Opposition Leader’s brother … Continue reading
FMM condemns blocking of Lanka E news
Press release/24.10.2011 The Free Media Movement (FMM) unequivocally condemns the recent action by internet service providers Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) and Dialog Axiata PLC to block access to the Lanka … Continue reading
Mystery Death Of Sole Suspect In Lasantha’s Murder -A Sudden Death in custody or another extra judicial killing?
Nirmala Kannangara in Nuwara Eliya Pictures by Asoka Fernando The sudden demise of 40 year old Pitchai Jesudasan, the main suspect in The Sunday Leader Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge murder case … Continue reading
Death of the primary suspect in the case of the murder of a newspaper editor should be investigated
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Pichchei Jesudasan, the primary suspect in the murder of veteran journalist editor of the Sunday Leader News Paper, Lasantha Wickramatunga, … Continue reading
In Sri Lanka, anti-government website blocked
The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that access to anti-government news website Lanka eNews has been blocked inside Sri Lanka, according to the site’s exiled editor and … Continue reading
Dialog and Telecom illegally blocks LankaeNews in Sri Lanka
Two of Sri Lanka’s Internet Service Providers – Dialog and Telecom – have illegally blocked Lanka E News to their customers. The chairman of the Telecommunication Reclamation Commission,(TRC) Anusha Palapita, … Continue reading
Al Jazeera Listening Post: Media narrative in post-war Sri Lanka
One of the consequences of war is that even after the fighting stops media freedom remains precarious.That is what it is like in Sri Lanka more than two years after … Continue reading
Lasantha murder suspect dead .
One of the suspects in the murder of former Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramatunga died of a heart attack at the Colombo General Hospital today. The suspect named Jesudsan had … Continue reading
Udul’s ‘We Are Sri Lankans’ challenges ‘Divaina’
‘We Are Sri Lankans’ says that a struggle for equal rights for all communities is the only way to gain power, noting that communalistic political games are not a shortcut … Continue reading
