Lasantha press freedom ‘hero’

19 February 2010 08:38 am

Slain Sri Lankan Editor Lasantha Wickrematunga has been named the 53^rd World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Freedom Institute.

The nomination of Lasantha Wickrematunge was unanimously approved by the five-member IPI World Press Freedom Hero jury that had included Raymond Louw the Editor & Publisher of the Southern Africa Report; N. Ravi the Editor of The Hindu in India; Galina Sidorova Editor-in-Chief at Sovershenno Secretno in Russia; Ferai Tinc, Columnist at the Hürriyet Daily in Turkey; and H.D.S. Greenway, Columnist; former Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA.

Wickrematunge will also be one of 60 World Press Freedom Heroes honoured in a ceremony to commemorate IPI’s 60th year of defending press freedom worldwide, at the IPI World Congress in Vienna and Bratislavia from between the 11^th and 14^th of September.

(IPI)