Case filed against The Hague in connection with the murder of journalist Lasantha

Leading press freedom groups have taken the case over the murder of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge to The Hague.

The Tribunal relies on investigations and high quality legal analysis involving specific cases in three countries. Since 1992, more than 1400 journalists have been killed, and in eight out of ten cases where a journalist is murdered, the killers go free.

The People’s Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists will indict the governments of Sri Lanka, Mexico and Syria for failing to deliver justice for the murders of Lasantha Wickrematunge, Miguel ngel López Velasco and Nabil Al-Sharbaji.