Ms. Mandana Ismail Abewickrema is the Associate Editor for The Sunday Leader and president of Sri Lanka’s first trade union for journalists. Mandana was confronted by four assailants in the middle of the night who told her that they had been hired because someone had put a contract on her. Fortunately for Mandana, police were nearby and the attack was foiled. Unfortunately this is not an isolated case and the situation in Sri Lanka for political activists remains grave with many unsolved disappearances, and even the UN finding many human rights violations.
Ms. Mandana Ismail Abewickrema is the Associate Editor for The Sunday Leader and president of Sri Lanka’s first trade union for journalists. Mandana was confronted by four assailants in the middle of the night who told her that they had been hired because someone had put a contract on her. Fortunately for Mandana, police were nearby and the attack was foiled. Unfortunately this is not an isolated case and the situation in Sri Lanka for political activists remains grave with many unsolved disappearances, and even the UN finding many human rights violations.
