Jan 24, 2019
On this day nine years ago, a political cartoonist went to work in Colombo. He never came home. Prageeth Eknaligoda was an outspoken critic of the government of Sri Lanka. He worked tirelessly to expose the gross human rights violations committed against Tamil...
Jul 5, 2018
“Your kids will be killed and you will be fed their meat.” That was but one of many disturbing threats recently received by Sandhya Eknaligoda, the wife of the disappeared cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda, who for the past eight years fought tirelessly for answers about...
Jun 6, 2012
We previously wrote about the ongoing saga of Prageeth Eknaligoda’s disappearance and the bizarre claims of the President’s lawyer (and Former Sri Lankan Attorney General) that Prageeth was alive and well and living abroad. Today he was finally compelled to testify...
Jun 1, 2012
We recently blogged about the case of the disappeared cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda and his wife Sandya’s quest for information and justice. We now have some good news: yesterday the appeals court upheld the decision of the magistrates court that former...
Aug 26, 2011
A warm thank you to all those who took part in Wednesday’s online action to draw attention to the disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda. The response has been incredible. People tweeted from all over the world. By noon (GMT) people had tweeted the campaign to...
