WBU Monitors Treatment of Media in Sri Lanka

The World Broadcasting Unions (WBU) continues to closely monitor the Sri Lankan government’s response to attacks on journalists and attempts to intimidate media organizations. The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has formally acknowledged an unjustified assault on media personnel by police and security personnel on ​July 9th, ​2022. It has confirmed that the journalists posed no threat to police and that the assault represented a gross violation of the rights of a free media. The media company which employs those journalists, MTV Channel (Private) Limited, further states that several staff members in the top-level of senior ...