COLOMBO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate online content, the speaker of the parliament announced, a law which opposition politicians and activists ...

Sri Lanka’s parliament has passed a law that grants the government sweeping powers to regulate social media and online speech, which opposition legislators have said will undermine democracy and ...

The law would seriously threaten the right to freedom of expression as Sri Lanka prepares for parliamentary and presidential elections later this year. Commission-appointed “experts” would be ...