Journalist faces charges after publishing report critical of Sri Lankan police
CPJ A freelance journalist for a Tamil-language daily in Sri Lanka has been charged in connection with a story he wrote that criticised the police, according to news reports and the paper's editor, who spoke to the Committee to Protect Journalists. N. Logathayalan, a freelancer for Uthayan, was detained on Wednesday in connection with a story he wrote for the paper that alleged a girl had been assaulted by police in the Nelliyadi police station in Jaffna city, in the north of the country, according to news reports. Police denied the story, the…Read more