(FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM press release: Grenade attack on Journalist’s house Free Media Movement deplores and condemns the grenade attack on journalist I.H.A. Wahab’s house, which took place at midnight on 14th November 2005. Mr.Wahab is a provincial correspondent of state run television station ITN and the Tamil language newspaper Thinakaran in […]
(FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM press release:
Grenade attack on Journalist’s house
Free Media Movement deplores and condemns the grenade attack on journalist I.H.A. Wahab’s house, which took place at midnight on 14th November 2005. Mr.Wahab is a provincial correspondent of state run television station ITN and the Tamil language newspaper Thinakaran in the Muslim dominated eastern town of Akkareipattu.
A grenade was thrown into his house in Akkareipattu at around 11:30 pm on 14th November. It exploded, destroying some glass windows of the house. No one was injured in the incident.
Mr.Wahab also works as media coordinator for a leading politician working for the government candidate in the coming presidential election.
FMM urges the government to initiate an impartial inquiry into the incident and to bring the culprits to book.
Sunanda Deshapriya
Spokesperson, FMM
