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.
All individuals and organisations are invited to join the campaign to Stop the War on Journalists in Sri Lanka and watch the “Release Tissa” video at http://asiapacific.ifj.org/articles/free-tissainayagam to help generate international support to end the attacks on free media in Sri Lanka.Tissainayagam was arrested on March 7, 2008, while working as the editor of the online magazine http://www.outreachsl.com/.
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2 September 2008
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The Indictment
1. This complaint states that in Colombo, which is within the jurisdiction of this court during the period between 1st June 2006 and 1st June 2007, the accused together with unknown persons committed an offence or abetted the commission of an offence or entered into a common intention with a prior understanding to abet the commission of an offence whether planned or unplanned, by words either spoken or intended to be read or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise, ....(more)
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The best of times and the worst of times
By Kishali Pinto Jayawardene
Certainly it is now, (to borrow a dearly immortalized phrase), the best of times and the worst of times. It is the worst of times for never before have the assaults on basic freedoms of life, liberty and democratic space been so prolonged and so pervasive or accompanied by such comprehensive subversion of constitutional institutions.
25 August 2008
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The first instance of a journalist being accused . . .
J.S. Tissanayagam was indicted, in the first instance of a journalist being accused under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, in the Colombo High Court yesterday (Aug. 25th) on charges of having plotted to bring the government intodisrepute and having attempted to incite communal feelings.
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සුනන්ද දේශප්‍රීය
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව මාධ්‍ය මර්ධනයෙහි ලා තවත් වාර්තාවක් තැබුවේ ය. ඒ තිස් වසරක් තරම් කාලයක් පුරා ජනමාධ්‍යට සහ ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන්ට එරෙහිව යොදා නොගැනුනු ත්‍රස්තවාදය වැළැක්විමේ පනත යටතේ ජනමාධ්‍යවේ දි තිස්සෙයිනායගම්ට එරෙහිව නඩු පැවරීම මගිනි. ( more)
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පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය
2008 අගෝස්තු 20, කොළඹ දී
මාධ්‍යවේදී ජේ.එස්. තිස්සනායගම්ට එරෙහිව නඩු පැවරේ
ඉතා විශ්වාස කටයුතු මාධ්‍ය මූලාශ්‍රයක් මඟින් අප මාධ්‍ය සංවිධාන වෙත දැනගන්නට ලැබී ඇති අන්දමට 2008 මාර්තු 07 වැනි දා සිට මේ දක්වා ත්‍රස්ත විමර්ශණ අංශයේ අත්අඩංගුවේ රඳවා තබාගෙන සිටි මාධ්‍යවේදී ජේ.එස්. තිස්සනායගම් මහතාට එරෙහිව මහාධිකරණයෙහි නඩු පවරා තිබේ. ඔහුට එරෙහිව ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති චෝදනා පත්‍රය තවමත් අප වෙත ලැබී නැති නමුත් අපගේ තොරතුරු මූලාශ්‍රවලට අනුව තිස්සනායගම් මහතාට එරෙහිව නඩු පවරනු ලැබ ඇත්තේ පහත දැක්වෙන චෝදනා යටතේය.( more)
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15 August 2008
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Call for release of website editor accused of terrorism
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Sri Lankan government to release J. S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist who has been held since March. A government minister has just said he is charged with terrorism on the basis of articles written in 2006 and his activities as the editor of a website."This respected journalist's illegal and unjust detention is being accompanied by grotesque charges that are a serious violation of the freedom of expression guaranteed in the Sri Lankan constitution
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A Story About a Tamil Called Tissa Tissainayagam
By Eric HüblerThu.
A dissident columnist is hauled away on a meaningless “detention order.” His frantic wife says he has been beaten — and is, in all likelihood, being beaten at this moment. She begs a family friend with international ties to get word out; the friend fires off an email to an influential American acquaintance, begging him to use his pull with Washington and the media to put unrelenting pressure on the embassy.
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More than 150 days of detention without charges:
Release of Mr. J.S Tissainayagam, Mr. N. Jasiharan and Mrs. Valarmathy immediately
Senior journalist, Sunday Times columnist and editor of the website www.outreachsl.com, Mr. J. S. Tissainayagam remains in custody without specific charges being brought against him for more than 150 days, even though the Attorney General’s department has informed the Supreme Court on July 11th 2008 that investigations are over.
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For Immediate ReleaseSri Lanka:
Free Journalist and Other CriticsGovernment Misusing Emergency Regulations(New York, August 8, 2008)
– The Sri Lankan government should release a prominent journalist and two others connected to a website critical of the government, Human Rights Watch said today. The three have been held without charge since March under emergency regulations
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Stop war on Journalists
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Arbitrary detention/ medical concern SRI LANKA Tissainaygam (m), journalist Journalist (more)
Arbitrary detention SRI LANKA Tissainayagam (m), journalist (more)
Press release Officials pressured local press to tone down criticism during EU delegation visit (more)
Sunday February 24, 2008 Columns – Telescope Child soldiers: What the Govt. report did not report By J.S. Tissainayagam (more)
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