{"id":108783,"date":"2013-10-05T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T18:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=108783"},"modified":"2013-10-10T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T05:45:17","slug":"sunday-leader-sacks-mandana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sunday-leader-sacks-mandana\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Leader Sacks Mandana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The service contract of the Associate Editor of The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sunday+Leader&amp;x=9&amp;y=4\">Sunday\u00a0Leader<\/a><\/span> newspaper <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mandana+Ismail+Abeywickrema&amp;x=3&amp;y=4\">Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema<\/a><\/span> who recently fled the country after her residence was attacked, has been terminated with immediate effect by Leader Publications.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_102041\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/journalist-mandana-attack-one-shot-dead-four-armed-men-in-police-custody\/mandana\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102041\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-102041\" title=\"Mandana\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mandana-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mandana-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mandana-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandana<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The service of her husband Romesh Abeywickrema who was the business editor of the same newspaper has also been terminated.\u00a0The sackings happened by email\u00a0on Friday\u00a0night the Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons for this dual termination were not immediately clear.\u00a0Ismail Abeywickrema, her husband and daughter left Sri Lanka for a &#8220;North American country&#8221; in September. Her house was attacked and burgled by armed attackers on\u00a024 August.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Sunday\u00a0Leader newspaper, formerly known as\u00a0a\u00a0publication that was strongly critical of the current Government,\u00a0was purchased in 2012 by a businessman close to the ruling Rajapaksa regime,\u00a0three years after the newspaper\u2019s\u00a0founding editor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lasantha+Wickrematunge&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\">Lasantha Wickrematunge<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and strident critic of the Rajapaksa regime was killed on his way to work.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Journalist Mandana Attack: One Shot Dead, Four Armed Men In Police Custody\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/journalist-mandana-attack-one-shot-dead-four-armed-men-in-police-custody\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Journalist Mandana Attack: One Shot Dead, Four Armed Men In Police Custody<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Frede Out And Saku In \u2013 Frederica Is Sacked, Not Resigned\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/frede-out-and-saku-in-frederica-is-sacked-not-resigned\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Frede Out And Saku In \u2013 Frederica Is Sacked, Not Resigned<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":102041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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