Sri Lanka urged to halt harassment of photojournalist following government probe

Sri Lanka urged to halt harassment of photojournalist following government probe

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called upon the Sri Lankan authorities to put an immediate end to the government’s alleged harassment of photojournalist Kanapathipillai Kumanan, after a police notice obtained by the organization revealed that Kumanan had been summoned by the counter-terrorism police for questioning. The summons comes in the wake of Kumanan’s extensive documentation of mass grave excavations in the country’s…