{"id":24079,"date":"2011-06-22T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24079"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:46:49","slug":"sri-lanka-press-freedom-bill-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24079","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Press freedom bill rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bid for greater media freedom put forward by opposition parties in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Sri Lanka\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/sri-lanka\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sri Lanka<\/a> has been rejected by the ruling party led by <a title=\"Mahinda Rajapaksa: Home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mahindarajapaksa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Mahinda Rajapakse<\/a>. The <a title=\"Wikipedia: United People's Freedom Alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance\" target=\"_blank\">United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance<\/a>, which\u00a0enjoys a two-thirds majority, voted against the proposed Freedom of Information Bill. The bill was presented after opposition members accused the government of trying to stifle media freedom. A total of at least 18 journalists and media employees have been <a title=\"CPJ: 18 Journalists Killed in Sri Lanka since 1992\/Motive Confirmed \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/killed\/asia\/sri-lanka\/\" target=\"_blank\">killed in the past decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bid for greater media freedom put forward by opposition parties in Sri Lanka has been rejected by the ruling party led by President Mahinda Rajapakse. The United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance, which\u00a0enjoys a two-thirds majority, voted against the proposed Freedom of Information Bill. The bill was presented after opposition members accused the government of trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[274,456,727,7392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79199,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions\/79199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}