January 30, Colombo (LNW): The Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) yesterday (29) organised a demonstration remembering Black January, an occasion marking media repression.
The event was held in front of the Colombo Fort Railway station.
Signatures were collected for a public petition as well.
“January is still black, expedite justice for crimes against mass media” was displayed as the slogan of the protest.
The event also displayed portraits of journalists who were either assassinated, abducted or brutally assaulted during previous regimes across the history.
Black January predominantly represents voice against state-sponsored media repression, a movement spawned out of the trend of media personnel and media institutions being repressed quite frequently in the month January during previous regimes in power.
Photo Courtesy: Ajith Senevirathne
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