Sri Lanka: media worker assaulted by unknown assailants
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Jan 17, 2020
- Event Description
Prasad Purnimal Jayamanne, a journalist based in Wennappuwa in Chilaw was assaulted by group linked to few politicians after he exposed unauthorized filling of a paddy field in Wennappuwa. Mr. Jayamannehas told Free Media Movement that he was assaulted by a group including the son of a former Wayamba Provincial Council member who had taken over the land filling from another former Wayamba Provincial Council member who claims to own the paddy field.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Suspected non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 7.342604609855068
Longitude: 79.84119459649493
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 17 January 2020, Prasad Purnimal Jayamanne, media worker, was assaulted by a group of persons after he reported an irregularity at the local level in Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka.
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