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Sri Lanka: Two Sri Lankan journalists threatened
27 October 2009

Two female editors at a national newspaper in Sri Lanka, Frederica Jansz and Munza Mushataq, have received death threats. The founder and former Editor-in-Chief ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/023/2009

Le Fil. Octobre/Novembre 2009
8 October 2009

Le Fil. Octobre/Novembre 2009

Document       NWS 21/005/2009

The Wire, October/November 2009. Vol. 39, issue 005
8 October 2009

1) Worldwide Appeals: DRC: Tortured in detention; Paraguay: Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous communities; Iraq: Detained without trial for nine years; Nepal ...

Document       NWS 21/005/2009

Displaced Sri Lankans trapped between the military and the ...
8 October 2009

A quarter of a million Sri Lankans now being held in de facto detentioncamps are facing a humanitarian disaster as monsoon rains threaten toflood camps.

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Sri Lanka: Displaced now trapped between the military and the ...
8 October 2009

A quarter of a million Sri Lankans now being held in de facto detention camps are facing a humanitarian disaster as monsoon rains threaten to flood camps, said ...

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Sri Lanka: Outspoken female journalist under threat
7 October 2009

Journalist and media rights activist, Dileesha Abeysundera is in danger after a gang of unidentified people threatened her and tried to forcefully gain access to ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/021/2009

Sri Lankan army clashes with detainees | Amnesty International
24 September 2009

A detainee was seriously injured and had to be hospitalized as a clashbroke out between the Sri Lankan Army and detainees being held ata school in Vavuniya in north ...

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Counting the human cost of Sri Lanka's conflict | Amnesty ...
11 September 2009

The Government of Sri Lanka announced a plan on 23 May to resettle most civilians displaced by conflict by the end of the year.

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Sri Lanka's displaced face uncertain future as government begins ...
11 September 2009

Only a fraction of nearly 300000 people who were displaced by recentfighting in the north east of Sri Lanka have been allowed to leavegovernment camps since the ...

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Sri Lanka jails journalist for 20 years for exercising his right ...
1 September 2009

JS Tissainayagam was convicted of writing and publishing articles that criticized the government's treatment of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians affected by the war.

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