Italian police raid illegal school run for Sri Lankans

Jayalalithaa wants fishermen freed

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the issue of Indian fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy and secure their immediate release. In a letter to Singh, text of which was released to the media in Chennai, Jayalalithaa referring to the recent arrests of Indian fishermen, in addition to five who are already in Lankan prison, said: “The arrest of 13 more Rameswaram fishermen with their three boats has further confirmed the unrele

05 Jul, 2012

UN calls for media freedom

The United Nations (UN) has called for media freedom in the wake of the crackdown on the Sri Lanka Mirror website in Sri Lanka. Responding to a questioned posed at the daily UN press briefing in New York yesterday, Martin?Nesirky, the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the UN was aware of the incident in Sri Lanka. ?We are obviously aware of those reports.? And as we?ve said in many other cases, not just with regard to this country, journalists need to be able to do th

03 Jul, 2012

HRW calls for end to media harassment

The Sri Lankan government should immediately end harassment of media outlets and journalists in violation of the right to freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said. In the three years since the end of the armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), President Mahinda Rajapaksa?s government has expanded its efforts to silence critical views. On June 29, 2012, the Criminal Investigation Department, acting on a court order, raided the offices of the Sri Lanka Mirror, a new

04 Jul, 2012