INDEXES on press freedom indicate that Sri Lanka’s media has become freer since the National Unity Government took office in January 2015. However, the reality on the ground with journalists threatened with counterterrorism laws, editors forced to practice self-censorship and near-continuous surveillance, paints another picture. Although the operating environment for journalists in 2018 is far safer than when Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in May 2009, the mere absence of death and disappearance of journalists is but the lowest denominator of a free media. A more meaningful way to gauge progress of…
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