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TW news-features (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
National Peace Council of Sri Lanka has issued a statement calling the Government of Sri Lanka to Ensure Freedom and Safety of Media Personnel. Full text of the statement as follows: Recently two well-known Sri Lankan editors, Frederica Jansz and Munza Mustaq, were threatened by letters sent anonymously through the post. The manner of wording, the format, [...]
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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Two newspaper editors recieved deaths threats last week after reporting on alleged video footage of Sri Lankan government soldiers executing Tamil prisoners. Frederica Jansz and Munza Mushataq, editors of The Sunday Leader , recieved the handwritten letters on 22nd October, according to ARTICLE 19. The newspapers’s previous editor Lasantha Wickrematunge was assassinated in January,...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Sunday Leader, a weekend broadsheet in Sri Lanka, said in the latest edition that two of the paper's editors, Frederica Jansz, and Munza Mushtaq, received Thursday "hand written death threats by post." The threats relate to Sunday Leader news stories on the authenticity of the August Channel-4 video which showed armed Sri Lankan soldiers executing Tamil prisoners stripped naked...
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Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
By The Sunday Leader(October 25, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Once again editors at The Sunday Leader are under threat. Last Thursday, October 22, Frederica Jansz, Editor-in-Chief of this newspaper and Munza Mushtaq, News Editor were both sent two hand written death threats by post.The two letters are identical — written in red ink and appear to have been posted on October 21, 2009....
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... ordered the police to carry out a thorough investigation into the recent death threats received by Frederica Jansz, Editor-in-Chief of TheSunday Leader, and Munza Mushtaq, its News Editor. The order followed representation to President Rajapaksa about the threat by Frederica Jansz, a statement issued by the Presidential Secretariat said here.The threatening letters were...
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... order comes following a representation by the Editor-in-Chief of the Sunday Leader, Frederica Jansz to the President over the death threats received by her and the News Editor Munza Mushtaq.The journalists were threatened by post following a report published in their paper on the Chanel 4 video. Lasantha Wickramathunga, the founding editor of the Sunday Leader, which is widely perceived...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... said it was greatly concerned by last week's death threats against Sunday Leader chief editor Frederica Jansz and her news editor Munza Mushtaq.The paper's founding editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, was gunned down near his office in January. The case remains unsolved."Our concern is that these most recent threats, like so many others, and the deaths of 11 journalists since President...
