Sri Lanka places conditions on unblocked website

by admin
Dec 15, 2011

The Supreme Court has ordered the unblocking of a website critical of the government.
Sri Lanka Mirror was one of several websites blocked by the Sri Lankan government in recent months for propagating ‘false information’.

The websites, including Lanka-e-news and Sri Lanka Guardian, are all highly critical of the ruling party.

The conditions placed on Sri Lanka Mirror by the Supreme Court include a ban on providing links to any of the websites still blocked.

The EU and US missions in Colombo expressed concern at the time of the ban, calling on Sri Lanka to allow media to operate freely.

See report in The Washington Post here.

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Supreme court sanctions Media Ministry's authoritarianism (03 Dec 2011)

Media Ministry has "full authority" to act against websites (17 Nov 2011)

EU express ‘concern’ over website bans (08 Nov 2011)

Sri Lanka bans opposition website (07 Nov 2011)


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