Colombo: An international media rights group
is protesting the suspension of a pro-opposition news website
in Sri Lanka and the detention of a reporter over an incorrect
news report.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says
yesterday's court order to detain the reporter and block
LankaeNews.com was just the latest attempt by the authorities
to silence it.
The order was made despite the website publishing a
correction and an apology.
The website's offices were burned down earlier this year
and one of its columnists has been missing for 15 months and
is suspected to have been abducted.
PTI
First Published: Friday, April 29, 2011, 16:12