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PAST EVENT: In memory of Lasantha Wickrematunge, 7/8 January
In memory of Lasantha Wickrematunge, 8 January
06 Jan 10

This week sees the first anniversary of the killing of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge.

On Friday 8 January, Friends of Lasantha and Tamil Legal Advocacy Project (TLAP) hosts a discussion at the YMCA, Fitzroy Square, featuring Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Human Rights lawyer, Frances Harrison (Former BBC correspondent for Sri lanka), Ed Davey MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, Liberal Democrats, Uvindu Kurukulasuriya, Journalist and former Convenor Free Media Movement (FMM), Sri lanka, Alex Wilks, Programme Lawyer, Human Rights Institute-International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, plus a speaker from Reporters without Borders (RSF) and messages from Journalists for Democracy in Sri lanka (JDS).
Details here