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Sunday, September 6, 2009. Tissainayagam sentenced to 20 years. Democracy in chains in Sri Lanka. Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka condemns the sentencing of journalist J.S. Tissainayagam to twenty years rigorous imprisonment under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) on August 31, 2009. As a community of Sri Lankan journalists and media persons in exile, we express our solidarity with our. We call on all democratic nations that enter into bilateral agreements with the government of Sri Lanka and ...
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ARTICLES . . .: Dangers of doing your job well
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ARTICLES . . . Wednesday, December 17, 2008. Dangers of doing your job well. November 4, 2006. Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times. Dangers of doing your job well. The irony here is like a joke gone sour; senior Tamil journalist JS Tissainayagam, the editor of a monthly magazine who is in jail for nine months now, is held in a prison in the heart of the capital called, well, Colombo Magazine Prison. On December 5, the Supreme Court, on another day of hearing of the Fundamental Rights Petition that Tissa...
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ARTICLES . . .
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ARTICLES . . . Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Editorials Blow to media freedom. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). THE HINDU - Opinion - Editorials Blow to media . Tissa JudgementView more documents from tissanaya. View my complete profile.
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ARTICLES . . .: September 2009
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ARTICLES . . . Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Editorials Blow to media freedom. Friday, September 11, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). THE HINDU - Opinion - Editorials Blow to media . Tissa JudgementView more documents from tissanaya. View my complete profile.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009. A SYMBOL OF SUBVERSION OF THE LAW. September 5th 2009,. Focus on Rights', The Sunday Times. The matter of a presidential pardon. In the first instance, those responsible for writing these press releases at the Ministry are well advised to acquaint themselves with the relevant provisions of the Constitution, namely Section 34(1) which grants the President the power to pardon any offender "convicted of any offence in any court within the Republic of Sri Lanka.". A critique of the...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009. UN Human Rights Council urged to intercede on behalf of two detained journalists. Reporters Without Borders, which has consultative status with the United Nations Human Rights Council, today asked the council to intercede on behalf of two imprisoned Sri Lankan journalists, J.S. Tissainayagam and N. Vithyatharan, and to meet as quickly as possible to discuss the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Intervention aux Nations unies en faveur de Tissainayagam et Vithyatharan. Report...
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ARTICLES . . .: December 2008
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ARTICLES . . . Wednesday, December 17, 2008. Dangers of doing your job well. November 4, 2006. Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times. Dangers of doing your job well. The irony here is like a joke gone sour; senior Tamil journalist JS Tissainayagam, the editor of a monthly magazine who is in jail for nine months now, is held in a prison in the heart of the capital called, well, Colombo Magazine Prison. On December 5, the Supreme Court, on another day of hearing of the Fundamental Rights Petition that Tissa...
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Statements: September 2008
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Monday, September 8, 2008. Media Release: Sri Lanka. September 8, 2008. Release Tissa: IFJ Launches Video Campaign to Free Sri Lankan Journalist. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its local affiliates in Sri Lanka today launched an online campaign video condemning the arrest and indictment of senior Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainyagam, whose passed his sixth month in jail on September 7. To help generate international support to end the attacks on free media in Sri Lanka. The indictmen...
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ARTICLES . . .: September 2008
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ARTICLES . . . Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Columns - FOCUS On Rights. The best of times and the worst of times. By Kishali Pinto Jayawardene. Abandoning the proverbial figleaf of democracy. The degeneration of constitutional institutions. Now, the extraordinary has become the ordinary. And the ease with which we accept this transformation - along with despicable justifications put forward by government apologists - is what should most concern us. Action taken in the name of national security. Printing ...
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By J.S. Tissainayagam: July 2008
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008. ISSN: 1391 - 0531 Sunday February 24, 2008 Vol. 42 - No 39. Columns – Telescope. Child soldiers: What the Govt. report did not report. In a concise, but comprehensive statement, the Civil Society Working Group on Child Soldiers (CSWGCS), comprising a number of civil society organisations, has demolished the work of CIAARC exposing the lies, omissions and the deliberate attempt to mislead the UN Security Council’s Working Group on Children in Armed Conflict by creating a fals...