by Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, October 28, 2014
The lack of justice in hundreds of murders of journalists around the world is one of the greatest threats to press freedom today. While international attention to the issue has grown over the past decade, there has been little progress in bringing down rates of impunity. States will have to demonstrate far more political will to implement international commitments to make an impact on the high rates of targeted violence that journalists routinely face. A special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists…
Impunity ratings of the 10 countries that have appeared on CPJ’s Impunity Index each year from its inception in 2008.
https://cpj.org/reports/2014/10/the-road-to-justice-appendix1-impunity.php
Sri Lanka
Aiyathurai Nadesan, Virakesari, May 31, 2004
Bala Nadarajah Iyer, Thinamurasu and Thinakaran, August 16, 2004
Dharmeratnam Sivaram, TamilNet and Daily Mirror, April 29, 2005
Relangi Selvarajah, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corp., August 12, 2005
Subramaniyam Sugitharajah, Sudar Oli, January 24, 2006
Subash Chandraboas, Nilam, April 16, 2007
Selvarajah Rajeewarnam, Uthayan, April 29, 2007
Paranirupasingham Devakumar, News 1st, May 28, 2008
Lasantha Wickramatunga, The Sunday Leader, January 8, 2009
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A member of the press holds a photo of Sri Lankan journalist Dharmeratnam Sivaram at a protest in 2013. Sivaram was abducted in April 2005 and found dead the next day. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)