IFJ Backs Sri Lankan Media Protests

The International Federation of Journalists has expressed solidarity with Sri Lankan journalists who are calling for worldwide attention to what they believe is intense suppression following the recent presidential election. Cited among their leading items of concerns is the missing cartoonist and journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda, who disappeared in the run-up to the election and whose publication was shut down immediately afterward. A lengthy statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission about Eknaligoda calls for increased police transparency into an investigation of what they believe is clearly a politically motivated act.

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