Sri Lankan’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) interrogated the editor of the Uthayan newspaper about an article published three years ago today, on Maaveerar Naal, as Tamils around the world commemorated their war heroes. Thangarajah Prabhakaran, editor of the Jaffna-based Tamil daily Uthayan, was interrogated for over 4 hours earlier today.
On September 14, Tamil journalist and union treasurer Punniyamoorthy Sasikaran was the subject of an interrogation by Sri Lankan police, the third occasion he has been questioned in the past three months. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Sri Lanka affiliate, the Federation of Media Employees Trade Union (FMETU), condemns these repeated interrogations by local authorities that work to constrain press freedom by enforce self-censorship.