Jaffna media

The owner of the Uthayan newspaper, Tamil National Alliance member and parliamentarian E Saravanbavan queried as to why the Government was only investigating the murder of editor Lasantha Wickrematunga and disappearance of cartoonist Pargeeth Eknaligoda and not the attacks on scribes in the North. While addressing Parliament yesterday, he commended the Government’s move to make […]

Journalists were forced out from a public consultative meeting about resettlement at the Jaffna District Secretariat on Monday. Despite being invited to a public consultation with Sri Lankan minister for resettlement, D. M. Swaminathan, journalists were told to leave the meeting before discussion began, reportedly at the behest of the Government Agent. Although Mr Swaminathan […]

Following the SL military sabotage against Tamil journalists, who were on their way to attend a workshop held in Colombo on Friday, 25 July, and against the continued threat and harassment of the involved Eezham Tamil journalists, Tamil journalists in the five districts of Northern Province came together at a protest organised by the Jaffna […]

[ Journalists Proests in Jaffna 31.07.2014 Photo: Jaffna Press Club] Jaffna 31 July 2014: Nearly 200 journalists andcivil activists joined together in a protest campaign against the attacks, intimidations and harassments faced by journalists in the Northern Province today. The protest was organised by the Jaffna Press Club was held in front of the main […]

[Police torch light on journalists faces; Original photo – Tamil Gaurdian] By Mayoorapriyan– It was last Friday  the 25 July. We, a group of journalists, were asked to come to Jaffna Media Press Club from where  a vehicle would depart around 5:30 PM to Colombo, in order to  attend for a media training program. So […]

[U.S. Embassy Concerns on Media Freedom in Sri Lanka] The United States is deeply concerned by the circumstances surrounding the cancellation of a journalism training session in Colombo over the weekend. The eventual cancellation of this training, which was focused on digital security for Jaffna-based journalists and financially supported by the U.S. government, was accompanied […]

[Photo: Journalists sitting on the road as a protest] Journalists who protested against military intimidation have been called for questioning tomorrow by the Omanthai police, reports a journalist at Yarl Thinakkural, a Jaffna based newspaper. The journalist, Monday morning, tweeted that 7 journalists who protested against the military had been called in for police questioning. […]

[Women’s groups protest against the gang rape in Jaffna, 25 July 2014; photo – Tamil Net] Journalists covering the rape case, of two pre-teenage school girls, allegedly by Navy personnel, were thrown out of the Jaffna Courthouse by a group of persons in civilian clothing.  The journalists’ cameras and mobile phones were seized and all […]

[Photo left to right: A. Nixon (SLTMA) Sunil Jayasekara, Sampath Samarakoon, Delesha Abeysundara (FMM) at the press conference, 26.07.2014] By Sunil Jayasekara – We, the Free Media Movement (FMM) and  Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance (SLMTA)  are here to day to inform you about the harassments faced by out fellow Tamil media journalists yesterday and […]

Sri Lanka Newspaper Burnt Burnt newspapers lie on the ground after an attack on the printing press office of the Tamil-language Uthayan newspaper in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in mid-April. Pic: AP.   Ruki Fernando In the early hours of April 12, 2013, armed men entered the office and printing press of Uthayan, a daily Tamil […]

MIlitary dismantled  the the Uthyan journalist’s camera 15 February 2013 People together with politicians engage in hunger strike protest on demanding to release lands and resettle people at the high security zone in the Waligamam north this afternoon.Due to the attack tense situation reported in the area. However people were confident on their protest. According […]

A newspaper distributor who was on his way to Vadamaraadchi through Jaffna – Point Pedro Road to distribute the copies of the Jaffna edition of Tamil daily Thinakkural was attacked and all the newspapers in his possession and his motorbike were put to fire by an alleged Sri Lankan military intelligence squad that intercepted the […]

“Udayan” newspaper delivery employee attacked, by unidentified persons. Papers burnt. “Udayan” newspaper delivery employee was attacked by unidentified persons today morning at 5.30 a.m at Maalu junction locality and his motorbike along with the newspapers was scorched.   The incident occurred while he took the newspapers from the “Udayan” print media office today morning was […]