Sri Lanka - Detention of IFJ Directors reflects state of dreadful media freedom in Sri Lanka

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partner organisation, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) unequivocally condemn the detention and harassment of IFJ's Asia-Pacific Director Jacqui Park and Asia-Pacific Deputy Director Jane Worthington in Colombo last week. Ms Park and Ms Worthington of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) were detained at a locally organised press freedom meeting in Colombo and were held in their hotel from October 30 and subjected to harassment (...)

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