RSF: Reporter, Cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda Goes Missing On Election Eve

The human rights and free speech organization Reporters Sans Frontieres is urging officials in Sri Lanka to spend more manpower tracking down reporter, cartoonist and political analyst Prageeth Eknaligoda. Eknaligoda went missing on Sunday evening in that he did not return home and did not make contact with either his workplace or any family member. He had been previously kidnapped for a few hours in August, and told co-workers he thought he might be followed. Police officials' first response was to say that this couldn't be done because of security being prepared for the election; RSF's stance is that a reporter going missing before an election is a bigger deal than usual.
 
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