Sri Lanka: Harassment of Journalists Continues

On October 27, Frederica Jansz, editor of The Sunday Leader, an independent English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka, received a four-page, handwritten death threat regarding an article she published in 2009.

In the 2009 article, General Sarath Fonseka, who was running for president at the time, alleged that Defense Minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa, ordered the execution of surrendered Tamil Tiger rebels.

Fonseka renounced his claims in 2010, but Jansz refused to retract her words, opting instead to publish a more thorough account of the interview with Fonseka and the chain of events that followed.

As a result Fonseka was sentenced to...

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Photo: Colombo Telegraph