Sri Lanka detains five Tamil journalists

Five Tamil journalists have been arrested by police in Sri Lanka over the past week for allegedly receiving money from the Tamil Tigers. But they claim the funds came from Tamil exiles in Germany to help students. Some of the five are believed to have been badly beaten. Among them is J.S. Tissanayagam, a columnist with Sri Lanka's largest-selling independent English-language newspaper, the Sunday Times. (Via Reporters without Borders)