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
Police say the murder suspect is a member of the PLOTE armed-wing A court in Sri Lanka has decided to re-initiate the investigation of senior Tamil journalist, Dharmaratnam Sivaram. The … Continue reading
The Lanka E-news website, which suffered an arson attack last month by an unidentified group, complained to the Kaduwela Magistrate that it has no confidence in the independence of the … Continue reading
Lanka-e-News, The two suspects P M Soosantha alias Soosa and Udeni Sisira Jayalath alias Boothaya who were remanded by the police in connection with the arson committed on Lanka e … Continue reading
Lanka-e-News, 15,Feb.2011, Attorney at law, Sandya Talduwa appearing for suspect Udeni Sisira Jayalath alias Boothaya requested court to give permission to the suspect in the e news arson case to … Continue reading
By Damith Wickremasekara Police probing the torching of the Lankaenews office at Malabe are investigating a foreign call said to have been received by a man who reportedly undertook a … Continue reading
Networking for Rights expresses it suspicion of the news that a suspect has been arrested in connection with the arson attack on the Lank-e-news office in Malabe on January 31, 2011 and calls on the government to conduct the investigation in a transparent manner. Lanka- e-news journalists.
It has become very obvious that the police investigations which are being conducted into the arson committed and damage caused to the Lanka e news office has been transformed into a well orchestrated spurious drama by the police and those behind .
Fort Magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayaratne, today ordered the Slave Island police to send all extracts with regard to the attack on the Sirasa Head Office to the Attorney General and file action against the suspect
December 04, 2010: Submitting a report yesterday, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) told the Mount Lavinia court that the case pertaining to the assassination of veteran journalist Lasantha, a veteran journalist Lasantha Wickrematunga had been handed over to the Terrorist Investigation Division(TID).
The CID yesterday informed the Mount Lavinia Magistrate that the main suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickramatunga had purchased five SIM cards using his national identity card.
Galle Magistrate granted bail to the three suspects who were arrested at the agitation organized by DNA on 12th of September in Galle and were kept in remand prison up to now.
The police are yet to take action against those responsible for the alleged assault on senior Daily Mirror journalist Sandun Jayasekara.
She was asked by the officers of the Colombo Crimes Division whether she had not been to a soothsayer to find out what had happened to her husband Prageeth Eknaligoda says Sandhya Eknaligoda, wife of the disappeared journalist.
Monday’s attack by a pack of goons on the Sirasa /MTV media network’s head office, that took place in broad daylight in the heart of the city, has been followed by the usual round of condemnations by government representatives.
Police Chief Mahinda Balasuriya vehemently denied having reprimanded the DIG for Colombo H. M. B. Herath and the Slave Island OIC K. M. Perera for taking action and intervening in the attack on MTV/MBC last Monday (22).
The Colombo Fort Magistrate yesterday ordered the Administrative Director of Sirasa media network to hand over the video footage on the attack of the MTV/MBC head office to the police to carry out further investigations and directed the police to arrest the suspects involved.
The manner in which bail was granted to sixteen suspects who had allegedly attacked the MBC/MTV head office cannot be justified and police should have produced them before a Magistrate’s Court, Senior Lecturer of Law Faculty Prathibha Mahanamahewa said yesterday.
by Ifham Nizam Former High Court Judge Mahanama Tillekeratne, Chairman of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into abductions and disappearances said yesterday that he was personally unhappy with Police investigations … Continue reading