{"id":128466,"date":"2014-07-29T01:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=128466"},"modified":"2014-07-29T01:54:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:24:20","slug":"us-concerns-military-intimidation-over-us-funded-digital-security-training-for-jaffna-journos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/us-concerns-military-intimidation-over-us-funded-digital-security-training-for-jaffna-journos\/","title":{"rendered":"US Concerns Military Intimidation Over US Funded Digital Security Training For Jaffna Journos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is deeply concerned by the circumstances surrounding the cancellation of a journalism training session in Colombo over the weekend and threats and intimidation by security forces against journalists covering the July 25 Jaffna court proceedings related to an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/navy-raping-tamil-children-impunity-promoted-by-rajapaksa-regime-has-made-sri-lankans-akin-to-slaves-ahrc\/\">11-year-old victim of sexual abuse<\/a><\/span>, allegedly at the hands of\u00a0 Sri Lankan Navy personnel from the Karainagar Naval Base, the US Embassy Colombo said today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journalists-detained-25Jul2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-128366\" alt=\"journalists detained 25Jul2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journalists-detained-25Jul2014.jpg\" width=\"426\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journalists-detained-25Jul2014.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journalists-detained-25Jul2014-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Issuing a\u00a0<\/span>statement<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0the US Embassy said; &#8220;The eventual cancellation of\u00a0<\/span>journalism<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0training, which was focused on digital security for Jaffna-based journalists and financially supported by the U.S. government, was accompanied by a series of threats and intimidation of training participants and other journalists around the country, including threats against at least one journalist who made a statement criticizing the government over the cancellation.\u00a0 <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/journalists-from-jaffna-detained-for-six-hours-after-army-plants-marijuana-in-their-vehicle\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This marks the third training<\/span> session<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> to be canceled in Sri Lanka since May, including others that were disrupted by well-organized protestors threatening harm to the training participants. Even when present, the police have not provided security for threatened journalists or taken action against the groups making the threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Separately, we are also gravely concerned about threats and intimidation by security forces against journalists covering the July 25 Jaffna court proceedings related to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/navy-raping-tamil-children-impunity-promoted-by-rajapaksa-regime-has-made-sri-lankans-akin-to-slaves-ahrc\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">11-year-old victim of sexual abuse<\/span><\/a>, allegedly at the hands of\u00a0 Sri Lankan Navy personnel from the Karainagar Naval Base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These events continue a troubling pattern of impunity for those who interfere with both freedom of speech and freedom of assembly in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 We have raised our concerns with the Government of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington, and strongly urged the Government to take immediate steps to ensure the protection of fundamental rights for journalists and for all Sri Lankans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":128366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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