LankaWeb – Summoning BBC Journalists Before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee: An Attempt to Revive an Obsolete Practice That Undermines Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights

PRESS RELEASE Maithri Gunarathna PC Rajith Keerthi Tennkaoon Free Lawyers Organization 22 July 2026 It has been reported that journalists attached to the BBC Sinhala News Service were to be summoned before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee in relation to their reporting on an incident involving Venerable Pallegama Hemarathana Thero. Although subsequent reports indicated that the […]