North American Country: Free Media Movement

Free Media Movement: Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema, co-editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, fled Tuesday to a North American country with her journalist husband and their 12-year-old daughter, the Free Media Movement said, according to The Star. No killing, abduction, assault or arson has been investigated and no perpetrator has been brought to justice, said Sunil Jayasekara, the Free Media Movements convener and COLOMBO, SRI LANKA A Sri Lankan newspaper editor has fled the country following death threats and an attack in her home in which her family was held at knifepoint, a media rights group said Thursday. More than 80 journalists have fled Sri Lanka since 2005. The government has been accused of failing to properly investigate a series of attacks on journalists who were viewed as critical of the administration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.