page_title: Uthayan
section_title: Awards and recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Uthayan / Awards and recognition
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Reporters sans frontières a décerné aujourd'hui son prix 2013 pour la liberté de la presse au journaliste ouzbek Muhammad Bekjanov, emprisonné depuis 14 ans dans son pays, et au quotidien sri-lankais Uthayan, journal en langue tamoule soumis à de multiples menaces et agressions. La récompense, parrainée par le quotidien Le Monde et la chaîne TV5 Monde, a été remise à l'occasion du deuxième Forum mondial de la démocratie organisé à Strasbourg par le Conseil de l'Europe. Uthayan, primé dans la catégorie médias, est le seul journal en langue Tamoule à avoir continué à exister au Sri Lanka durant la guerre civile qui a opposé l'armée régulière à la rébellion des Tigres de libération de l'Eelam Tamoul de 1983 à 2009. Proche de l'ancienne aile politique des Tigres, le journal a encore récemment subi un saccage de ses locaux à Jaffna, dans le nord du pays, et plusieurs de ses employés et journalistes ont été tués, menacés de mort ou contraints à l'exil.
context_page_description: Uthayan is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by New Uthayan Publication Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 1985 and is published from Jaffna. Its sister newspapers is the Colombo based Sudar Oli. Uthayan was the only newspaper published from Jaffna which did not cease publication due to the civil war. The newspaper has been attacked several times, a number of its staff have been murdered by paramilitary groups and other forces, and it regularly receives threats.
context_section_description: The Uthayan was nominated in the "Media" category in the 15th Reporters Without Borders-Fondation de France Prize. It was awarded by the prize in 2013.
  The Uthayan received the Public service and Tolerance Journalism Award at a ceremony at Galle Face Hotel on 24 October 2008 organised by six Sri Lankan journalists associations (National Federation of Journalists, Federation of Media Employee’s Trade Unions, Free Media Movement, Sri Lankan Working Journalists Association, Sri Lanka Muslim Media Forum and Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance).
  The chief editor and staff of Uthayan won the Sepala Gunasena Award for Defending Press Freedom in Sri Lanka award at the Journalism Awards for Excellence 2008 held at Mount Lavinia Hotel on 14 July 2009.
  In its August 2007 report The International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka describes the Uthayan as "a heroic paper". It goes on to say – "This newspaper, Jaffna’s most popular Tamil daily, has paid a heavy price for doing its job since it was founded in November 1985. Its offices were bombed by the Indian army in the 1980s and then by Sri Lankan war planes in 1990. Its staff have been threatened by several Tamil armed groups, including the EPRLF and the EPDP, that have been fighting in Jaffna for the past 20 years, and in 1999 paramilitaries threw a grenade into its offices."
caption: The awarding ceremony of the Reporters Without Borders-Fondation de France Prize, in Strasbourg, November 2013.
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