Lankan court orders temporary blocking of news website

A Sri Lankan court has ordered temporary blocking of a popular anti-government news portal over the contempt of court charges.

PTI | April 29, 2011



A Sri Lankan court on Thursday ordered temporary blocking of a popular anti-government news portal over the contempt of court charges.

The Pugoda Magistrate's Court asked the country's Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to block the access of the 'Lankaenews' website until the conclusion of the court hearings regarding one of the portal's journalists, who had been arrested on the charges of contempt of court.

The website journalist Shantha Wijesuriya has been arrested on April 25 after the website had carried a piece of wrong information on a case heard in the same court.

Wijesuriya was asked to be further remanded until May 12, his lawyer Namal Rajapaksha said.

Lankaenews is highly critical toward government.

Last January, Websites' head office in Colombo had been burnt down by an unidentified gang.

Later its chief editor Bennet Rupasinghe was remanded for allegedly threatening the brother of one of the two suspects related to arson case on the website's offices.
 

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