Prageeth Eknaligoda Updates: Offices Burned, Festival Shut-Out

There were a couple of odd updates over the weekend in news related to the missing Sri Lankan cartoonist and columnist Prageeth Eknaligoda, who failed to return home from work over a year ago on the eve of contentious elections about which he had written in searing, confrontational fashion. The first is that the offices of the on-line news agency for which Eknaligoda worked, Lankaenews.com, was set on fire early today. The second is that Eknaligoda's wife Sanjaya, accompanied by her son, was apparently not allowed to address the Galle Literary Festival. This is unfortunate because the literary festival was the subject of a suggested boycott because of government inaction on the Eknaligoda case, and also news travels haphazardly countries like Sri Lanka, so the opportunity to make an address at a public event like that is a bigger deal than it might appear from the outside looking in. The family members did meet as many people as possible, and distributed some pamphlets about the situation.
 
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