Sri Lanka: Tissainayagam, PTA, and Humanitarian Crisis in Vanni (TamilNet)
Yahoo September 5th, 2008The action taken by the Sri Lankan Government to indict Tissainayagam, for stating the truth and exercising the right of fair comment he enjoys as a journalist, make it impossible for any dissent from the governments point of view to be published by the press in Sri Lanka. Tissainayagam is the first journalist to be caught up under the Draconian twins, the Prevention of Terrorism Act No:48 of …
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