{"id":30571,"date":"2014-06-12T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=30571"},"modified":"2014-06-12T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:28:45","slug":"transparency-international-condemns-disruption-of-investigative-journalism-workshop-organized-by-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=30571","title":{"rendered":"Transparency International Condemns Disruption of Investigative Journalism Workshop Organized by It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n(Text of a Press Release Issued by the Transparency International of Sri Lanka)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Transparency International of Sri Lanka (TISL) vehemently condemns the disruption of a workshop they  had organized on investigative journalism for the second time and urges the government to take stern action against those who were responsible. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>TISL has been conducting training programmes for journalists on the subject of investigative reporting against bribery and corruption and good governance for many years. With the intention of encouraging journalists to write investigative reports on the recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee (LLRC) to ensure good governance, a similar programme was introduced for the vernacular language journalists. <\/p>\n<p>The entire process of the programme was publicized through the media in view of complete transparency and selection of the participants was done through application process.<\/p>\n<p>The programme had already been conducted for Sinhala language journalists. The workshop for Tamil language journalists started in Deer Park Hotel, Giritale on 22nd May. Tamil and Muslim journalists from North and Eastern provinces and Colombo were in participation. However, during the conference the hotel management informed the TISL that the workshop could no longer be conducted based on instructions received from the Ministry of Defence. The TISL is in possession of written evidence from the hotel management to prove this.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, TISL decided to hold the workshop at the Goldie Sands Hotel, Negombo, but this was disrupted by an organized group of persons who arrived at the premise. The protesters accused the TISL of supporting terrorists and claimed that the workshop was to train people to give evidence against Sri Lanka in an international investigation. We have evidence that these protesters were transported to Negombo from outside.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton30571\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D30571&amp;text=Transparency%20International%20Condemns%20Disruption%20of%20Investigative%20Journalism%20Workshop%20Organized%20by%20It.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Text of a Press Release Issued by the Transparency International of Sri Lanka) The Transparency International of Sri Lanka (TISL) vehemently condemns the disruption of a workshop they had organized on investigative journalism for the second time and urges the government to take stern action against those who were responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30572,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571\/revisions\/30572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}