Sri Lanka
Since 2005 the conditions of violence and impunity has made life increasingly dangerous for media practitioners in Sri Lanka. In response to this situation, IMS is seeking to help provide rapid response to journalists at risk. In October 2006 and June 2007, IMS coordinated international advocacy and safety missions to Sri Lanka to bring international attention to the situation in the country, as well as to support the national media community.Archive
- Open letter to SG Ban Ki-moon about Prageeth Eknaligoda
- Call for UN to help find missing Sri Lankan journalist
- Where is Prageeth?
- IFJ Sri Lanka Mission Report : "Key challenges for media after war's end" - English version
- Tamil version of IFJ Mission report: "Key challenges for media after war's end"
- Sinhala version of IFJ Sri Lanka mission report: "Key challenges for media after war's end"
- Media abuse debated in Sri Lanka election campaign
- Sri Lankan media in downhill spiral
- Open letter to the President of Sri Lanka
- "A war without witness"
- Sunanda Deshapriya's Speech in Lasantha's memory
- UNESCO speech WPF Prize 2009
- Tissa Statement Intl. Press Mission to Sri lanka, 6 Mar. 2009
- International call for justice for jailed Sri Lankan Journalist
- Press release, 21 January 2009 from the International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka
- Worsening conditions in Sri Lanka
- Media under fire: Press freedom lockdown in Sri Lanka
- Statement of the International Mission to Sri Lanka, 29 Oct. 2008
- Working with IMS - the case of Sri Lanka
- Violence against media in Sri Lanka on the rise
- Jaffna's media in the grip of terror, fact-finding report of International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka, 6 August 2007
- Statement of the International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Mission to Sri Lanka, 22 june 2007
- Ampara Eastern Sri Lanka Report, June 2007
- Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka: Struggle for survival, 2007
- Mission Statement, International Fact-finding and Advocacy Mission to Sri Lanka, 11 October 2006
- Study of media in the North-east of Sri Lanka, 2003
- Assessment mission on IMS engagement in Sri Lanka in support of the Ceasefire process, June 2002
Where is Prageeth?
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Two hundred days have passed since Sri Lankan journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda disappeared. Prageeth, who regularly contributed to LankaeNews web site, went missing 24th January 2010. Call to action by IMS and other international media organisations
Prageeth is a political analyst and a cartoonist known for his outspoken views critical of the government of Sri Lanka.
Since Prageeth’s disappearance his wife, along with media rights and human rights groups, has continuously urged the government of Sri Lanka to reveal his whereabouts. The Cartoonists Rights Network International acknowledged her relentless campaign by bestowing a Special Recognition award for her spirited challenge to the Sri Lankan government to account for her disappeared husband. To listen to her version of the story, click on the arrow in the window below.
While the police and other authorities have failed in providing any information that leads to finding Prageeth, they haven’t taken any steps to counter or investigate freely circulated disinformation that he is in hiding. Whatever took place on the night of 24th January 2010, it is the duty of Sri Lanka’s government, led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, to find where Prageeth is and inform his wife Sandya and the world. The inability to do so inevitably affirms Sandya’s repeated assertion that she holds the government of Sri Lanka responsible for the disappearance of her husband.
Therefore, on the 12th of August 2010, the International Day of Solidarity for Prageeth, standing beside Sandya, we, the undersigned organizations and individuals, call upon the government of Sri Lanka to fulfil our reasonable demand.
Find journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda and give him back to us!
Signatories to this statement:
Cartoonists Rights Network International
Committee to Protect Journalists
International Media Support
Media Legal Defence Initiative
Reporters Without Borders
The International Federation of Journalists
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