{"id":150704,"date":"2015-09-13T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=150704"},"modified":"2015-09-18T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T07:42:38","slug":"mobitel-blocks-mahinda-rajapaksas-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mobitel-blocks-mahinda-rajapaksas-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobitel Blocks Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s new government has blocked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahinda.info\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.mahinda.info<\/span><\/a>, a website run by Mahinda Rajapaksa Information Centre. The website has been blocked since Friday by one of the internet service providers, Sri Lanka Mobitel, a fully-owned subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom.<\/p>\n<p>Last January President Sirisena appointed his brother, Pallewatta Gamaralalage Kumarasinghe Sirisena as the Chairman of Sri Lanka Telecom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitele-block-www.mahinda.info_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-150707 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitele-block-www.mahinda.info_.jpg\" alt=\"Mobitele block www.mahinda.info\" width=\"259\" height=\"460\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitele-block-www.mahinda.info_.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitele-block-www.mahinda.info_-169x300.jpg 169w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 259px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 259\/460;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-150713 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitel.jpg\" alt=\"Mobitel\" width=\"307\" height=\"460\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitel.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mobitel-200x300.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 307px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 307\/460;\" \/><\/a>President Maithripala Sirisena gave a specific order to lift direct online censorship as one of his first acts in power. Websites can be \u201cprohibited or be subject to supervision and control\u201d under S.69 of the Sri Lanka Telecommunications Act 1991 \u2013 but only under ministerial authority, and under a publicly announced order.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">No such order was made to replace the directive issued by President Sirisena in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/keep-the-promise-protect-internet-freedom-in-sri-lanka-worldwide-free-expression-orgs-urge-mangala\/\">Keep The Promise, Protect Internet Freedom In Sri Lanka: Worldwide Free Expression Orgs Urge Mangala<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":150051,"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-150704","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 v28.2 - 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