By Colombo Telegraph –
Access to http://colombotelegraph.com/ website and its mirror site http://colombotelegraph.wordpress.com/ have been blocked in Sri Lanka by Dialog http://www.dialog.lk/ broadband Internet connections permanently since December 24,2011.
Colombo Telegraph has been blocked by all Internet Service Providers randomly and news based since November 4, 2011. Several journalists, academics, lawyers and human rights activists based in Sri Lanka independently confirmed that they were unable to access the http://colombotelegraph.com/ website via Dialog from December 24.
Colombo based an international award-winning citizens journalism website groundviews tweeted yesterday;
colombotelegraph.com, which has feat. critical content on #lka & Govt from @wikileaks cables, blocked on @dialoglk. Why? #srilanka@lankasol
And
Colombo Telegraph’s main site & wordpress.com mirror inaccessible on @dialoglk. WHY? Ok SLT ADSL for now. #lka #srilanka @FreeTheInternet
We urge our readers to use proxy servers at the moment or follow Colombo Telegraph Face Book Page and share this news with your friends.
manuri-toronto / December 27, 2011
Call up Ranil and tell him to unblock……..even in Toronto there is a code of ethics….and it is the general understanding that everyone abide by it…..
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V. Sivalingam / December 27, 2011
We are not surprised this move. We will send it via text. If the authorities stop the flow of information, then the very same people will learn its consequences which is happening in Arab world.
Siva
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Umesh / December 27, 2011
Let’s give your support to UNP and to Mr.Ranil nWikaramsinha and soon will get you better place with our goverment….Just support him.
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