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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11923055" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://en.rsf.org/squelettes/img/en/logo-en.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka has dropped in the Press Freedom Index maintained by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last year compared to the previous year.The latest Press Freedom Index 2011-2012 has placed Sri Lanka in the  163rd position as against the 158th position in the previous year.From the report:In Sri Lanka (163rd), the stranglehold of the Rajapakse clan forced the last few opposition journalists to flee the country. Any that stayed behind were regularly subjected to harassment and threats. Attacks were less common but impunity and official censorship of independent news sites put an end to pluralism and contributed more than ever to self-censorship by almost all media outlets.<a href="http://en.rsf.org/IMG/CLASSEMENT_2012/CLASSEMENT_ANG.pdf" target="_blank">http://en.rsf.org/IMG/CLASSEMENT_2012/CLASSEMENT_ANG.pdf</a></blockquote>

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