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Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR430.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 02/06/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation, who was kidnapped yesterday by a gang on a Colombo street, tortured and then dumped at a roadside. He is now in hospital with serious leg injuries.
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