{"id":114479,"date":"2013-11-10T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=114479"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:26:02","slug":"govt-finds-a-way-to-put-the-noose-on-foreign-scribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/govt-finds-a-way-to-put-the-noose-on-foreign-scribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt Finds A Way To Put The Noose On Foreign Scribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days ahead of the Commonwealth Summit in Colombo, the Government of Sri Lanka has devised ways and means to prevent foreign media personnel flooding the country to cover the summit from reporting on other issues in the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88661\" style=\"width: 106px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Charitha-Herath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88661\" class=\" wp-image-88661  \" alt=\"Charitha Herath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Charitha-Herath-200x300.jpg\" width=\"96\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Charitha-Herath-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Charitha-Herath.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charitha Herath<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=CHOGM&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CHOGM<\/span><\/a> Task Force Secretariat in Sri Lanka has issued a directive to foreign media personnel accredited to cover the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo that they would require further clearance from the Government to pursue non-CHOGM related events and stories.<\/p>\n<p>A notice signed by Media Ministry Secretary and Chairman of the Media and Publicity Sub Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Charitha+Herath&amp;x=11&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Charitha Herath<\/span><\/a> says foreign media seeking to explore &#8220;non CHOGM related activities and stories&#8221; will have to apply to the Accreditation Division of the Ministry of Mass Media and Information.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign journalists would have to follow the regular procedures outlined by the government information department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":88661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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