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Media groups petition SC against Media Minister’s enhanced powers |
| 8/11/2008 |
The Sri Lanka Press Institute, Telshan Network Pvt. Limited, Shan Wickremesinghe, Dialogue Television Pvt. Limited and the Federation of Media Employers are among those who have petitioned the Supreme Court against the government gazette of October 10, 2008, enhancing the powers vested in the Media Minister to grant or suspend a licence of a private Television or Media station.
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Tissainayagam cross examined on confession |
| 8/11/2008 |
| Senior Journalist Jeyaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam was crossed examined before Colombo High Court Judge Ms. Deepali Wijesundera in the inquiry to ascertain whether the confession made by him to the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) was a voluntarily one or made under pressure and duress. more >> |
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Magistrate orders CID to furnish report on journalist’s phone |
| 8/11/2008 |
 The Mt. Lavinia Magistrate Harsha Sethunga yesterday ordered the CID to furnish a report on the telephone used by the journalist Arthur Wamanan in a case filed by Minister Mano Wijeratne.
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Four more FR petitions against TV Regulations |
| 8/11/2008 |
 Four more fundamental rights applications were filed by three television stations and Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) challenging the proposed Regulations of Private Television Broadcasting Stations-2007 by the Minister of Mass Media and Information Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, yesterday. more >> |
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Govt. postpones Extraordinary Gazette on electronic media |
| 8/11/2008 |
 Mass Media Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa has requested media institutions heads to submit their proposals with regard to the proposed regulations announced in the Extraordinary Gazette notification to amend the existing Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Act.
Minister Yapa said the proposals could be forwarded to the Ministry Secretary within the next two weeks. more >> |
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“I was harrassed by TID”-Tissainayagam |
| 8/11/2008 |
 Senior Journalist Jeyaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam testified before Colombo High Court Judge Ms. Deepali Wijesundera in the inquiry to ascertain whether the confession made by him to the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) was a voluntarily one or made under pressure and threat. more >> |
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Tissainayagam (C) is escorted to High Court by prison officers |
| 5/11/2008 |
 Ethnic Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam (C) is escorted to High Court by prison officers in Colombo November 5, 2008. Tissainayagam has been detained since March 7, 2008 under the emergency regulation enforced by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan police.REUTERS
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The implications of the death threat from Mahason Balakaya to lawyers, judges and the public |
| 4/11/2008 |
 The letter from the Mahason Balakaya threatening lawyers who appear for terrorists raises many questions which go far beyond the matter of the protection of the individual lawyers who have received such threatening letters. Why is it necessary to deprive a terrorist, alleged or real, representation by lawyers at legal proceedings? An inquiry into that question could take us to many of the complex problems involved in contemporary Sri Lanka. more >> |
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Press groups, opposition decry S.Lanka media curbs |
| 4/11/2008 |
| COLOMBO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition accused the government on Friday of further crushing media freedom, echoing criticism by press rights groups which had just left the Indian Ocean island nation. more >> |
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Media Groups to Challenge New Restrictions |
| 3/11/2008 |
| COLOMBO, Nov 3 (IPS) - Media groups in Sri Lanka, already restricted from covering the war against Tamil rebels in the north, are bracing to challenge new regulations that seek to control television broadcasting and new media. more >> |
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Rights groups slam media controls in Sri Lanka |
| 3/11/2008 |
 COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka has the lowest press freedom rating of any democracy and has been the first to use anti-terror laws to prosecute journalists, international rights groups said Friday. more >> |
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UNP leading campaign against TV regulations |
| 31/10/2008 |
| The UNP backed by the SLMC and the SLFP (M) have declared an agitation campaign against an extraordinary gazette notification which impose strict control on TV stations including tough provisions on cancellation of their license. more >> |
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Statement of the International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka |
| 31/10/2008 |
| The International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka on its visit between October 25 and 29 found deterioration in the press freedom situation since its last visit in June 2007, marked by a continuation in murders, attacks, abductions, intimidation and harassment of the media. In the recent World Press Freedom Index published by RSF, Sri Lanka has fallen to the lowest press freedom rating of any democratic country worldwide. more >> |
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Statement of the new Private Television Broadcasting Station Regulations |
| 31/10/2008 |
| The Minister of Mass Media and Information has on 10th October 2008 promulgated a new set of regulations cited as the Private Television Broadcasting Station Regulations, under powers conferred by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Act, No.6 of 1982. These new regulations seek to regulate all aspects of private television broadcasting, including classification of stations and services; issue, revocation, and duration of licenses; fee structure; territorial coverage; ownership; duties and responsibilities of private television broadcasters; extended powers more >> |
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