The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pointed fingers at the security forces over its failure to conclude investigations into some high-profile criminal cases, The Sunday Morning learnt. Reports on six high-profile investigations were handed over to the Attorney General’s (AG) Department last week. Meanwhile, following the updated report on investigations that had been submitted by the […]
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Exiled Sri Lanka journalist Keith Noyahr agrees to identify suspects via video technology
Image: Keith Noyahr not willing to come to Sri Lanka in person to identify his abductors. Senior State Counsel Lakmini Girihagama appearing on behalf of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) informed the Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate that former Nation Deputy Editor Keith Noyahr has agreed to an identification parade via video technology. Girihagama made this remark […]
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Is this the death squad that went after journalists in Sri Lanka?
By Skandha Gunasekara. Investigations have uncovered links between controversial military intelligence officer Major Prabhath Bulathwatte and a spate of attacks on journalists prior to 2015, sources at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told The Sunday Morning. CID sources said that all new information uncovered through investigations has now been submitted to courts. CID sources added […]
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Abduction of journalist Keith Noyahr : CID to complete probe soon, file charges
(28June 2018) Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate Lochana Abeywickrama yesterday re-remanded former military intelligence head retired Major General Amal Karunasekara in connection with the abduction and assault incident of former Nation Deputy Editor Keith Noyahr in 2008, till July 10. The current Army Intelligence Unit Director briefed the Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate and the Senior State Counsel […]
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Sri Lanka: Investigators put together the jigsaw of abduction & assault of journalist Noyahr
File photo: Journalist Keith Noyahr at work. May 22, 2008 was a usual day for journalist Keith Noyahr until he reached the gates of his home in Dehiwela that night. He was abducted and assaulted by a group of unknown persons as he was about to enter his home premises. The engine of his vehicle […]
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Sri Lanka: Gotabhaya Rajapaksa behind Keith Noyahr abduction
Image: Journalists protest against Keith Noyahr abduction, May 2008. Addressing the media at the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) on 22 February, Chameera Perera, co-convenor of the Left Centre said that the ongoing investigation pointed to the direct responsibility of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in the heinous crime. Perera claimed that those who had been arrested […]
