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Top Stories Sri Lankan editor detained for links to LTTE: Report Colombo (PTI): A top media rights group has strongly condemned the detention of a Tamil newspaper editor in Sri Lanka for alleged links to the last month's LTTE air attack in the capital, a news report has said. N. Vithyatharan, the editor of the Tamil daily Sudar Oli, has been held by the police since February 26. The authorities are trying to establish a link between him and the Tamil Tigers, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported. "He is involved in the recent air attack (on February 20) and I am telling you if you try to give cover-up for that person you have blood on your hands,” Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was quoted as saying by the of Sri Lankan daily. "And if someone says he is arrested because he is in media, that person also has blood on his hands,” Mr. Rajapaksa said in an interview with Australia's Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). J.S. Tissainayagam, another ethnic Tamil journalist with the Sunday Times newspaper, has been held under an anti-terrorism law for more than a year. The Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has consultative status with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has strongly condemned the detention. It has urged the council to intercede on behalf of the two imprisoned Sri Lankan journalists, the report said. ------------------------------------ -- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTMedia mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [email protected], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE Share media news, discuss journalism issues and network with media professionals across South Asia on this mailing list. Just write to [email protected] TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTMedia by sending a blank mail to [email protected] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
