{"id":95129,"date":"2013-07-11T19:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=95129"},"modified":"2013-07-15T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:07:56","slug":"sri-lanka-flirts-with-press-regulation-lal-wickrematunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-flirts-with-press-regulation-lal-wickrematunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Flirts With Press Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In an interview with the UK\u2019s Press Gazette this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lal+Wickrematunge&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\">Lal Wickrematunge<\/a>, brother of murdered Sri Lankan newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, lamented the self-censorship of his country\u2019s press, and warned that UK hacks should fight for their own freedom of speech as an example to others, saying \u201cThose who are in safer climates must keep the drum beating because these are the standards that other journalists in troubled areas look to.\u201d Padraig Reidy writes<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86101\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-sold-the-majority-shares-and-have-no-decision-making-powers-anymore-says-lal-wickrematunge\/lal-wickrematunge\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86101\" title=\"Lal Wickrematunge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lal-Wickrematunge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lal-Wickrematunge.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lal-Wickrematunge-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lal Wickrematunge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/2013\/07\/sri-lanka\/\">more<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan journalists are looking ahead to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Colombo in November. While British Channel 4 News and Australian ABC journalists will be wondering if they will even allowed into the country, after the president took umbrage at their coverage of his brutal final push in the civil war with the Tamil Tigers, Sri Lankans will be wondering if, post-Leveson, David Cameron will be able to look the likes of Rajapakse in the eye and talk about press freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":86101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lanka Flirts With Press Regulation  - 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