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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, July 12, 2018
LET US COME FORWARD TO GET PRESS COUNCIL ABOLISHED – FREE MEDIA 0MOVEMENT
(2018 July 11\FMM Media Release.)
Without considering the continuous appeal made by many Sri Lanka’s media
organizations including Free Media Movement (FMM), to abolish Sri lanka
Press Council, President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to appoint a
Board of Directors to activate the Sri Lanka Press Council Act and FMM
thoroughly condemns this action.
FMM believes this decision as acting against one of the election
promises of the Present President by which he confirmed media freedom.
One of the main agreements to which FMM and many civil society
organizations arrived with the present President during the election was
the abolishment of the Sri Lanka Press Council. Beside this Free Media
Movement had been handed over set of proposals included the abolishment
of the Sri Lanka Press Council to the President. The steps taken by
President can be seen as breaking an agreement made by the President
Maithripala Sirisena on his part.
As in the past, we promise we would continuously make the society aware,
activate a media voice about the inappropriateness, inapplicability and
backwardness of this Sri Lanka Press Council and struggle against it
until it is abolished.
Therefore as this incident indicates the necessity of a broad media
reform with media responsibility and media freedom, we request Sri
Lanka’s media community and all those who love democracy to aggregate
and fight against the establishment of the Press Council Act.
Convener , C.Dodawatta
Secretary, Dileesha Abesundara