Colombo Telegraph
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{{Short description|Sri lankan online newspaper}}
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| name = Colombo Telegraph
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| url = {{url|https://www.colombotelegraph.com/}}
| type = Online newspaper
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| editor = Uvindu Kurukulasuriya
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| launch_date = 2011
| language = English, Sinhala
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| current_status = Active
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The Colombo Telegraph is a Sri Lankan website run by exiled journalists. It was founded in 2011.{{cite web | url=https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/about/ | title=Colombo Telegraph Mission | newspaper=Colombo Telegraph | accessdate=1 July 2021}} It has been blocked in Sri Lanka repeatedly. Uvindu Kurukulasuriya is the editor. He went into exile to UK in 2009 after the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge and after he was threatened publicly via national radio by the president's media advisor.{{cite web | url=https://rsf.org/en/news/sectarian-violence-south-declared-limits-media | title=Sectarian violence in south declared off-limits for media | publisher=Reporters Without Borders | date=20 January 2016 | accessdate=1 July 2021}}{{cite web | url=https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/colombo-telegraph-blocked-how-to-reach-us-now-sri-lanka-telecom-and-mobitel-joins-the-dpi-club/ | title=Colombo Telegraph Blocked, How To Reach Us Now: Sri Lanka Telecom And Mobitel Joins The DPI Club! | newspaper=Colombo Telegraph | date=28 August 2013 | accessdate=1 July 2021}}{{cite web | url=http://littleatoms.com/world/sri-lanka-president-media-reform | title=Sri Lanka’s new President has a plan for everything, except media reform | publisher=Little Atoms | work=Rohan Jayasekera |accessdate=1 July 2021}}{{cite web | url=https://ipi.media/ipi-calls-for-sri-lanka-to-allow-access-to-news-websites/ | title=IPI calls for Sri Lanka to allow access to news websites | publisher=IPI | work=Carolin Dürkop | date=25 March 2014 | accessdate=1 July 2021}}{{cite web | url=https://www.article19.org/resources/sri-lanka-illegal-blocking-of-public-interest-news-site-must-be-investigated/ | title=Sri Lanka: Illegal blocking of public interest news site must be investigated | publisher=Article 19 | date=24 July 2015 | accessdate=1 July 2021}}
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.colombotelegraph.com/}}
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