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January 2010, two days before
the elections that swept Rajapaksa to power. Prageeth Eknelygoda is alive and
well, according to MP Arundika Fernando, who spoke in
Committee to Protect Journalists
country's ongoing anti-press climate.
Murders over time in Sri Lanka:
Prageeth Eknelygoda, an opposition cartoonist and columnist, remained unaccounted for after vanishing in January
Police never bothered to look for cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda. It's not unusual.
By María Salazar-Ferro
buscando con desesperación a su marido. Durante los pasados cinco meses, Prageeth Eknelygoda, caricaturista y columnista político, había sido secuestrado, perseguido y amenazado.
Black January commemorations in Colombo have become an annual event. Tuesday's demonstration was the second. The protest aims to recall the series of killings and attacks on journalists in Sri Lanka in recent years, many of them occurring in Januaries past. All of them have gone untried and unpunished,...
Three years ago, on January 24, 2010, columnist and cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda vanished
on his way to work to cover the final campaigning in
When I first met Sandhya Eknelygoda in May 2010 in her home outside Colombo, she was a distressed mother of two young boys whose husband had gone missing. He was last seen four months earlier, just prior to the elections that returned President Mahinda Rajapaksa to power after the end...
Former Attorney General Mohan Peiris has been ordered to testify about a statement he made at the U.N. Committee Against Torture in Geneva on November 9, 2011, in which he said that Prageeth Eknelygoda was alive and living outside the country (see "Sri Lanka's savage smokescreen"). Peiris will have to appear...
has been a development in the ongoing
hearings about the disappearance of Prageeth Eknelygoda. The magistrate's court hearing the
complaint, brought by his wife Sandhya, decided
The magistrate's hearings into the January 24, 2010, disappearance of opposition journalist and cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda continue at a tortuously slow pace. A correspondent in Colombo shared the details of the April 24 hearing, where Eknelygoda's wife, Sandhya, and the couple's two teenage sons continue to press for any news of...
