Sri Lanka - With media gagged or threatened, no progress for freedom of information

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on all members of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, which began its 19th session yesterday, to pass a resolution condemning the Sri Lankan government's violations of freedom of information and to demand an end to threats and violence against news media and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka. “For more than a year we have been seeing new forms of censorship and a deterioration in journalists' ability to work although the war with the (...)

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