Remembering Lasantha Wickrematunga
Six months after the Sunday Leader editor was slain, Uvindu Kurukulasuriya looks at increasing state control of Sri Lankan media
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD 2009 RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
The winners of the 2009 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards were announced last night at a ceremony at Kings Place, London
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Sri Lanka: breakfast with the president
Sri Lanka’s reporters are constantly at the mercy of the whims of the country’s powerful elite, says Uvindu Kurukulasuriya
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Lasantha Wickrematunga
‘No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces — and, in Sri Lanka, journalism.’
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