Sonali Samarasinghe

Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge is a Sri Lankan lawyer and an investigative reporter and editor. She worked as a columnist for the Sunday Leader. She was the founding editor of the weekly Morning Leader .[1] She did her LLB from the University of London and attended Sri Lanka Law College and she was admitted to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka as an attorney at law. She was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University and an international journalist in residence at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.

She was the wife of Lasantha Wickrematunge. She had to flee Sri Lanka to the United States after threats to her life after the assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge. She is the Editor of the website Lanka Standard. She was awarded the Global Shining Light Award for Investigative Journalism by the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2008 and the Pen International awarded her the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression in 2009. [2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge". IREX. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Sonali Samarasinghe Journalist, lawyer". ICORN. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Sonali Samarasinghe". Ithacacityofasylum.org. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Project Exile: Editor escaped Sri Lanka after husband's murder". Indexoncensorship. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Widow of Sri Lankan journalist on her husband's death". BBC. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Lasantha murder: International probe urged". BBC. 8 January 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2022.

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