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Poddala attack, scribes woes and TNA’s change of stance |
| 11/6/2009 |
Over the past couple of weeks, a certain electronic media station, and certain newspapers, were strongly hinting that several journalists in the country had been having cosy relations with the LTTE. They even went to the extent of charging that these journalists had been taking money from the Tigers. The general public, who have been celebrating the military victory against the LTTE, have now started eyeing the scribes with suspicion. This charge is levelled against several journalists who were at the forefront of organising and taking part in picketing campaigns and protests rallies in the recent times. The television channel made these allegations while telecasting the footages taken of those pickets and protests. The journalists, who were shown on the television channel along with the allegations, are now in bit of hot water.
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The war is over but the war against the media is not |
| 8/6/2009 |
| If Sri Lanka post war was being lulled into a false sense of security that the island nation could now become the functional democracy it deserves to be, the brutal attack on well-known journalist Poddala Jayantha last week served as an eye opener that while the war against the LTTE is over, the war against the media is certainly not. more >> |
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Media again under threat |
| 3/6/2009 |
The dastardly attack on the General Secretary of Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association Poddala Jayantha, on Monday has again sent shock waves around the media circles. Abducted by an unknown group late afternoon on Monday as he was on his way home, he was later found beaten and left on the road side by some people. Admitted to the ICU, he was later declared out of danger.
A known advocate of media freedom, Jayantha’s attackers did not only inhumanely beat up an unarmed journalist, but also poses a greater threat to free expression in the country.
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Journalists union chief brutally assaulted. Abducted by gang in a white van |
| 2/6/2009 |
| General Secretary of the Working Journalists’ Association, Poddala Jayantha was abducted at Embuldeniya yesterday evening and brutally assaulted by a gang that arrived in a white van. more >> |
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SLWJA Secretary assaulted |
| 2/6/2009 |
| Lake House Journalist and Secretary of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) Poddala Jayantha, was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital last night after he was seriously assaulted by an unknown gang. more >> |
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Gangsters attack Poddala |
| 2/6/2009 |
| Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association Secretary Poddala Jayantha who was attacked by a group of men last evening is now being treated at the Accident ward of the National hospital. more >> |
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Journalist Poddala Jayantha assaulted |
| 1/6/2009 |
 Journalist Poddala Jayantha was admitted to the Colombo General Hospital a short while ago with injuries to his leg after he was abducted and assaulted by an unknown group of persons before being dumped on the road in the Mulleriyawa area, Police said. more >> |
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Journalist Poddala Jayantha abducted, assaulted |
| 1/6/2009 |
 Journalist and Sri Lanka Working Journalist Association (SLWJA) secretary Poddala Jayantha was admitted to hospital with leg injuries after being abducted and assaulted by an unknown group before being dumped on the road
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Journalists trying to cover fate of Tamils are threatened, obstructed |
| 29/5/2009 |
 Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried by statements by Sri Lankan officials, including army commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka, that journalists who visited areas formerly controlled by the Tamil Tiger rebels will be prosecuted. more >> |
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Police probing journos who were on Tiger payroll- IGP |
| 29/5/2009 |
 Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jayantha Wickramaratne has claimed that several journalists, mostly Sinhalese, were on the payroll of the LTTE and were thickly involved in the insurgency, according to latest investigations.
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Trampling journalists underfoot becomes a habit |
| 26/5/2008 |
 Keith Noyahr’s abduction on Thursday and the assault that followed stands out for several reasons, even amidst the regular brutalisation of this society as an act of impunity of a rare order. Noyahr was working for a relatively recently established English newspaper, and his profile there was kept low. more >> |
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Barbaric attack on journalist |
| 24/5/2008 |
 It looks as if the government, while pining and blaming all and sundry about the loss of the country's place in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), it is permitting the production of evidence that lends substance to the allegation that there is a serious problem about human rights violations in the country. more >> |
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The Management and Staff of Rivira Media Corporation stood shell shocked and outraged |
| 24/5/2008 |
| The Management and Staff of Rivira Media Corporation stood shell shocked and outraged on Thursday night (May 22) upon receiving the news that Associate Editor of The Nation and one of the paper’s most senior journalists, Keith Noyahr, had been abducted outside his residence at around 10 p.m. more >> |
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President calls for probe |
| 24/5/2008 |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday directed Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and IGP Victor Perera to inquire into the incident where The Nation Deputy Editor Keith Noyahr was assaulted.
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The government rejected a call by the UNP in Parliament yesterday to appoint a Select Committee to examine how investigations had been conducted into the killings, abductions and attacks on media personnel in the recent past. 
