Colombo University Medical Students Attack Media!!

[ahamednishadh]

A newspaper photographer and a video cameraman of private television station were beaten by the security and students of the Medical faculty hostel and their camera equipment damaged today afternoon.

The photographer attached to the Lankadeepa newspaper had been assaulted when he was photographing a student who was being interviewed. The student had consented for the interview.

Initially the security officer had objected for the photographs being taken claiming that the board of the hostel was also being photographed. After the security guard assaulted the photographer students too had intervened and also assaulted the cameraman.

A video cameraman of the Sirasa TV station also who arrived there had been assaulted and his camera damaged.

Complaints have been lodged in the police.

-sundaytime

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Journalists assaulted near Colombo Medical Faculty hostel

A group of journalists have been assualted near the Colombo Medical Faculty Hostel moments ago allegedly by Medical students. Lankadeepa photo journalist Janaka Galapaththi had been attacked by several individuals for reasons yet to be established.

-DM


looks lyk students are also trying to imitate "acharya" thuma nw!!

 

[sirajstc]

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[ahamednishadh]

thx man and congartzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 4 ur 3000 posts

ah yeah thx bro!

 

[sirajstc]

i added there wish

 

[yohantha]

 

[DJ.ROCKSTAR]

afffatasiri thnx 4 the info

 

[northtech]

tx 4 da info !

 

[asanka10]

ops

 

[SeeComnet]

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[ahamednishadh]

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mamanam vot kara. habai dont go out of topic man!

 

[ahamednishadh]

IGP ordered to probe assault on photo-journalsits
2008-08-28 19:46:13

(UPDATE 1) - Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene has ordered the IG Police to take immediate action and apprehend the medical students allegedly behind the mob-style attack on a group of journalists near Carey College Punchi Borella.

A photo journalists from the independent Wijeya Newspaper group were allegedly assaulted by a large group of medical students while they were taking pictures during the course of a mild newspaper interview and their camera equipments forcibly taken away.

Later a Sirisa and Lankadeepa cameraman who had arrived at the scene to cover the incidents were brutally assaulted by the students resulting in the hospitilisation of the Sirisa journalist.

At least 10 students were later questioned bv thw Cinnamaon Gardens Police and later released after their statements were recorded..

Meanwhile several Media Rights organizations strongly condemned the incident and called on the police and relevant authorities to hold an urgent inquiry and apprehend all those behind the attack saying it was a real threat to media freedom in the country.
-sundaytimes

 

[ahamednishadh]

A medical student challenges journalists in the presence of a police officer at the Cinnamon Gardens Police Station today. Pic: By J. Weerasekera
-sundaytimes

 

[ahamednishadh]

Three journalists from private media institutions were allegedly assaulted and their cameras snatched at the Medical Faculty of the University of Colombo this afternoon (Aug. 28th).

Journalist Yamuna Darshani and cameraman Janaka Galappatti of 'Lankadeepa' newspaper and Sirasa TV journalist Dushyantha Manoj are the victims of the incident.

At the time, they had been seeking public opinion over the dispute surrounding the boycott of answer script marking at the G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination.

A medical student had told them about his views, after which the media group had tried to take a photo when other medical students had turned unruly.

Two still cameras and a video camera had been seized from them.

Police had to intervene to rescue them from the undergraduates, and were admitted to hospital.

Later, they had lodged a complaint with the police, and the students had threatened the media group at the police station.

Police have found the seized cameras, but no arrests are yet to be made.

-LD

 

[Velupille Prabakaran]

Mata Ahu Unot mamat Gahanawa Ban... Boru Kiyanawata.

 

[phantomzone]

ammatasiri mama adane danagaththe ape aacharyathumaata hora lamainuth innawa kiyala rate hamathanama..

 

[pamithK]

ammatasiri mama adane danagaththe ape aacharyathumaata hora lamainuth innawa kiyala rate hamathanama..

sira kathawa ..whts wrong with them? i thought you nee 3 A's to get into med..seems we are smarter

 

[ahamednishadh]

Mata Ahu Unot mamat Gahanawa Ban... Boru Kiyanawata.

kaatada bunz gahanne?

media ekatada?
un karapu waradda monawada??

lamayekgen eyage permision thiyenakota interview karapu ekada??

ane palayan bunz!

 

[ahamednishadh]

ammatasiri mama adane danagaththe ape aacharyathumaata hora lamainuth innawa kiyala rate hamathanama..

 

[TΞΞNSTAR™]

haaffaaa.... okkoma den Ape DR.mervin wa aadarshayata aran wage....

 

[ahamednishadh]

haaffaaa.... okkoma den Ape DR.mervin wa aadarshayata aran wage....

dan ithin thiyenne university wala faculty of thuggerism arts kiyala ekak patanganna ekak witharai. thokota me medicine, engineering faculty wala competition eka aduwenawa ne!!