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Sri Lanka: So Much For Press Freedom Day

Categories: South Asia, Sri Lanka, Media & Journalism

Jeyaraj at Transcurrents comments on the irony of a Tamil journalist being arrested on World Press Freedom Day [1]. “It is learnt that she was detained initially by ministerial security division personnel in charge of Foreign Affairs minister Mangala Samaraweera who suspected her of being a woman suicide bomber targetting the minister.”