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Tamil doctors detained for giving media casualty figures

Three Tamil doctors have been detained in Sri Lanka after they supplied local and international news media with causality figures in Vanni during the last stages of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Read more here and here

South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN)

20 May 09 | Resources

The South Asia Media Solidarity Network is an alliance of journalists’ trade unions, press freedom organisations and journalists in South Asia committed to working together to promote freedom of expression, freedom of association and journalists’ rights in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Free Media Movement (FMM)

20 May 09 | Resources

The Free Media Movement is a collective enterprise of journalists and media personnel in Sri Lanka active in all areas relating to media freedom, defending the rights of journalists and media people, calling for reform of repressive legislation, agitating against censorship and intimidation of media personnel and standing for broad principles of democratic and human rights. The FMM has become the watchdog of media freedom in Sri Lanka.

Channel 4 news team deported from Sri Lanka

11 May 09 | Index Index, minipost

Three Channel 4 reporters have been deported from Sri Lanka after broadcasting details on living conditions and alleged sexual abuse on war refugees in displacement camps. Read more here

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