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 Defence journalist missing in Sri Lanka!
Keith Noyahr, Defence writer of English weekly 'The Nation' is reported missing from late evening today 22nd May 2008 (He has been freed - he is in hospital after suffering a severe beating)
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Kemal Kutan is Free - but he is still in danger!
A Karlsruhe Court has ruled that Kemal Kutan will not be extradited! and he has been set free! But, unfortunately, it does not mean that he is safe now..
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Attacks on the media escalates in Sri Lanka
Six people - journalists and media workers - in custody. Four Tamils and two Sinhalese working in the media field are being held by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan Police.
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Double standards of the German authorities
Kemal Kutan and Søren Kam both live in southern Germany. They both have pending requests for extradition from Germany. But here the similarity ends. (See also the new update)
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Immediate action needed
The British foreign and development ministers must put immediate pressure on the Sri Lankan President to release S. Sajitharan - a relative of a Tamil MP, who has been abducted by a pro-government group to push through the annual budget of the government
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International campaign to defend Asoka Handagama
An international campaign to defend artistic freedom in the wake the attacks on Asoka Handagama’s work has started. Initial supporters of the appeal include the British film director Ken Loach. Watch this space daily for new developments… .
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Release Tiran Alles immediately!
Tiran Alles, the well-known Sri Lankan businessman and owner of the publishing house Standard Newspapers Pvt. Ltd was arrested on the 30th May while he was undergoing treatment in a Colombo hospital. His publishing house printed the popular newspapers ‘Mawbima’ and ‘Sunday Standard’.(Tiran Alles has been freed)
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Open letter to Angela Merkel from Civil Society Groups in Nigeria
Civil Society groups critisise invitation to Umar Yar'Adua to the G8 summit in Heiligendamm
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Arrest of director of publishing house in Sri Lanka!
On Monday, the 26th of February, at 10pm Sri Lankan time, officers from the ‘Terrorist Investigation Division’ (TID) arrested Dushantha Basnayake a director of ‘Standard Newspapers Private Limited’ (SNPL) in Colombo. Standard Newspapers’ print the popular Sinhala weekly ‘Mawbima’(motherland), a newspaper that has been under severe attack from the President Mahinda Rajapakse. (Dushantha Basnayake has been freed)
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Sri Lankan regime lurches to the extreme right as abduction and repression spread to the south!
On the 5th of February, three Sinhalese, known in anti-war and left circles in Sri Lanka were arrested by the Srilankan Security forces under the pretext of "terrorism". This was the beginning of a fear campaign against the opposition against war drive of the government in the South
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Deaththreats against activists in Barranquilla
On 14 December 2006, in the city of Barranquilla, a communiqué was left at the residence of Euripides Yance, a Coca-Cola worker and member of the National Committee of SINALTRAINAL. The communiqué threatens various student, social and trade union leaders, giving them a week to leave the city.
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Correspondent for Telesur in Colombia arrested
On the evening of November 19, 2006, the journalist FREDY MUÑOZ ALTAMIRANDA, correspondent in Colombia for Canal TELESUR, was detained by agents from the Administrative Department of Security (DAS)
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Video-Interview with Sivaram Dharmeratnam - Editor of tamilnet.com
Shortly after the interview his colleague Aiyathurai Nadesan was assassinated in Sri Lanka
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