Sri Lanka - Crackdown on media continues

Reporters without borders

The Colombo headquarters of Lanka, a Sinhalese-language weekly that supports the JVP opposition party, were closed by the authorities yesterday, 24 hours after its editor, Chandana Sirimalwatte, was taken into custody by the Criminal Investigation Department. The offices of the Lanka-e-News website were also surrounded by the police. The authorities today rescinded Swiss journalist Karin Wenger's deportation order. Wenger, who covered the presidential election for Swiss public radio (...)

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