Supreme court sanctions Media Ministry's authoritarianism

by admin
Dec 2, 2011

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Media Ministry's plans to ensure all wesbites covering news and information on Sri Lanka register with the ministry, on Friday. 

The ruling came during a case filed by the website, www.srilankamirror.com, who had been blocked by the government since 5th November.


The three-member panel of judges instructed the Media Ministry to continue with the programme of registering the websites and ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) launch an enquiry into all websites operating in Sri Lanka and file a report in the Supreme Court on the 15th of this month with regard to websites that had filed petition against the government blocking their sites.

See related articles:

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

Sri Lanka orders news websites to register (06 Nov 2011)

See also: Supreme Court backs government's expropriation bill (08 Nov 2011)

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