Keith Noyahr, deputy editor and defence analyst with the English-language weekly The Nation, was abducted on Thursday night, severely beaten and dropped off near his residence early Friday, the Free Media Movement (FMM) said.
"There is no other reason for this latest attack against a journalist than his independent writing and analysis of the war in the North, if that is reason at all," the media rights group said.
“We believe that it is only through the devolution of power that we can build up a united and prosperous Sri Lanka, says the joint statement released by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), and Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF- Pathamanabha) on the solution of the ethnic problem 0n 18 April 2007
Bala Tampoe, General Secretary of the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General workers Union (CMU) calls on President Mahinda Rajapakse to repeal Regulations 13 and 40 immediately, stating that the regulations violate fundamental human and democratic rights of the people of Sri Lanka.
