Posts Tagged ‘Press freedom’
Tonight I will light a candle for a journalist![]() Last Friday Lasantha Wickrematunge – an outspoken Sri Lankan journalist, husband and father – was stabbed and shot to death, his state-sanctioned killing will never be prosecuted. I could write a list of journalists who have been killed, tortured, arrested or deported by governments around the world, but the list would be too long. I could write a list of all the courageous journalists out there still speaking truth to power. I could try to explain why journalists matter, but instead I will light a candle by water and be thankful. Instead I will leave it to him, to the piece titled And then they came for me published in his paper on Sunday
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