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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12956414" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lankan police raided the shared office of two news websites arresting nine people, mostly journalists.         Computers and phones from the office of Sri Lanka Mirror and  Sri Lanka X News were also confiscated by police, witnesses told the  BBC.         It is unclear on what grounds it was raided. Correspondents say the websites support the political opposition.          Police have yet to comment on the raid, which comes amid growing fears for media freedom in Sri Lanka.          The office of the two websites has been sealed. Police have also raided the home of a senior journalist at the Sri Lanka Mirror.         "This is clear proof that media freedom is dead in Sri Lanka," opposition MP Ravi Karunanayake told BBC Sinhala.         Earlier this week five Tamil-language news websites were blocked.          In November last year several Sri Lankan websites were temporarily blocked for "maligning the president".BBC</blockquote>

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