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An organisation which protects and promotes media freedom in Jaffna; official twitter account. Retweets≠endorsement

Katılım Mayıs 2013
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Jaffna Press Club
Jaffna Press Club@JaffnaPressClub·
5. Gamini Navartne’s fearless journalistic contribution will never be forgotten by the Tamils.
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4. When the newspaper re-emerged in February 1984, Gamini (at the age of 52) travelled to Jaffna to takeover the editorship of Saturday Review, at the request of his erstwhile friend Sivanayagam who was in exile by then.
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3. Following the forced closure of the newspaper, at least two petitions were filed before the supreme court by S Nadesan challenging the ban imposed on Saturday Review , and Gamini Navaratne was one of the petitioners.
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2. On 1st of July 1983, JR Jayawardena banned Saturday Review forcing Sivanayagam to flee the island and seek refuge in India.
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Jaffna Press Club@JaffnaPressClub·
1. Jaffna Press Club organised and commemorated the 20th death anniversary of a senior Sinhala journalist, Gamini Navartne, today in Jaffna. #PressFreedom #SriLanka
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கரிகாலன் garikaalan
Masterminds behind this worst cultural crime committed against Tamil people were then senior UNP politicos & never held accountable #justice
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ACPR
ACPR@AdayaalamCPR·
We are now very worried that order may be used by police to harass/intimidate the #Tamil community at large, particularly HRDs (4)
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ACPR@AdayaalamCPR·
After we repeatedly emphasized Fr Elil's harass. magis. directed police not to summons him, but said they could summons anyone else(3)
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ACPR@AdayaalamCPR·
Police in court went as far as arguing that any memorial in #lka can only be done if names are run by police first (2)
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ACPR@AdayaalamCPR·
We are deeply concerned by Mullaitivu Magistrate's extens. of order for police invest. of names in memorial by Fr Elil w/ no legal basis (1)
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Nirmanusan B@Nirmanusan·
On the night of 1/6/ 1981, the #Jaffna public library, housing 97,000 rare books& manuscripts, was burned to the ground. #BurningMemories
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shalin
shalin@uthayashalin·
The 36th Remembrance Day of the burning of Jaffna Public Library was observed by staff at the Library Hall today. #Burningmemories #lka
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ACPR@AdayaalamCPR·
Adayaalam stands in solidarity with #familiesofdisappeared protest Day 100 in #Kilinochchi + calls on govt to immediately address issue #lka
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