Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his misguided astrological and numerological wisdom held the seventh presidential elections on January 8th 2015. When the date was announced most people yearning ...

After Richard de Zoysa was killed during the time of President Ranasinghe Premadasa, Lasantha was among the journalists whose lives were threatened. He went to Australia where he stayed for some time ...

Three years after the day-light murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of Sunday Leader newspaper, “there has been virtually no investigation into this crime,'' his wife has alleged. She wants an ...

The family of slain editor Lasantha Wickrematunge has expressed hope that the government led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake will uncover the truth behind the crime, and deliver justice. Speaking at the ...

It was a wife and colleague’s ode to a luminary figure, when on Monday, March 26 at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Raine Wickrematunge launched Unbowed and Unafraid – a biography of her ...

The 14th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on January 8, is scheduled be marked with a service at his graveside. Family, ...

The murder of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in 2009 has been cited as emblematic of the culture of impunity in Sri Lanka. This statement was originally published on fmmsrilanka.lk on 5 February ...

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an 8 April 2009 IFJ media release: IFJ Welcomes Press Freedom Prize to Lasantha Wickrematunge The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the ...