(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 August CPJ press release: SRI LANKA: Tamil newspaper editor killed in Jaffna New York, August 21, 2006 – A Tamil newspaper editor and former member of parliament was ...

N. Vithyatharan, chief editor of the Tamil newspaper Sudar Oli, was released from detention on April 28, four days after police admitted in court that there were no grounds to charge him. His ...

(RSF/IFEX) – On 14 April 2003, RSF denounced the arrest of R. R. Gopal, editor of the bi-weekly Tamil-language magazine “Nakkheeran”, for “illegal possession of firearms” and “sedition”. The ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan police arrested the editor of a Tamil-language newspaper in the middle of a funeral Thursday, accusing him of aiding a rebel air attack on the capital ...