President Mahinda Rajapaksa has reportedly reprimanded the Lankadeepa Editor and veteran journalist Siri Ranasinghe for giving publicity to a story with comments made by Sarath Fonseka. – SLPI Freedom tracker

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has reportedly reprimanded the Lankadeepa Editor and veteran journalist Siri Ranasinghe for giving publicity to a story with comments made by Sarath Fonseka.

Incident Date: May 30, 2011

Last modified on : March 8th, 2023

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Threat Type: verbal attack

Attached Newsroom:Lankadeepa

Incident reference no: 2011/05/03/VA

Mode of threat: In Person

Affected Media Organization: Vijaya News paper

Current Status: Not Applicable

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