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Govt. misusing country`s anti-terrorism law to crack down on critical media
Saturday, 14 April 2007 - 10:15 PM SL Time
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Reporters Without Borders called today for the immediate release of a top official of the firm publishing the Sinhalese-language weekly Mawbima and accused the government of misusing the country`s anti-terrorism law to crack down on critical media.
The financial director of publishing firm Standard Newspaper Private Limited (SNPL), Dushantha Basnayake, was arrested at his office on 26 February under this law and the firm`s accounts were frozen a month ago.
`Some government members are determined to get revenge on the paper and have insulted Sri Lanka`s journalists,` the worldwide press freedom organisation said. `No evidence has been presented against Basnayake.` It also called for the firm`s accounts to be unfrozen so the paper could reappear as soon as possible.
The accounts of the firm CBE, controlled by Tiran Alles, owner of Mawbima, were frozen on March 8 and 9 and those of SNPL on 13 March. This forced the paper first to reduce its print-run and then shut down both Mawbima and the English language weekly Sunday Standard on March 28.
Health minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said publicly on 6 April that journalists were behaving like `mad dogs` and should be `vaccinated` as dogs were against rabies.
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Saint
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14 Apr 2007 15:20:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hmmmmm
Boomerang ... would be a wise thing to not to make this sort of mistakes al least in the future.
:-(
Edited By - Saint - 14 Apr 2007 15:25:45 GMT |
chinthanaya
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14 Apr 2007 15:21:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Not only the critical media, but also the innocent tamil civilians. |
Robins
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14 Apr 2007 15:29:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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| The gvt is carrying out illegal human right violations and it wants the media to shut up!! |
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14 Apr 2007 15:33:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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Chetanahan bhikkawe kamman wadaami!
The intention of act makes the difference!
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Edited By - BABA - 14 Apr 2007 15:34:25 GMT |
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14 Apr 2007 15:34:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Atleast these Mawbima guys should be happy they were not taken for a white van. Which is not the case for more than 1600 tamil youths disappeared / killed so far, by these muderers since they came to power. |
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14 Apr 2007 15:44:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Is there any media freedom in Wanni?
man, ltte is a rebel organisation under strict military leadership. is your srilankan govt similar?? |
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14 Apr 2007 15:44:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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Baba
Is there any media freedom in Wanni?
Now this is what I call 'provoke',
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14 Apr 2007 15:45:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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BaaaaaaBaaaaaaaa,
Is there any media freedom in Wanni?
Is your government democratic? |
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14 Apr 2007 15:49:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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LTTE is a rebel organisation under strict military leadership!
Thats the problem!
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