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Sri Lanka: Detained journalists

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 @ 17:27 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Sri Lanka
Topics:: Media

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Transcurrents.com on six people affiliated a news website who have been detained by the Terrorist Investigation Division of the Sri Lankan police force in Colombo since last week.

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Freddy gamage

its sad all the media orgas kept silent on this issue in SL.
What is media freedom../

# 2008-03-15 at 17:21 pm

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