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New York, June 6, 2001 --- In a letter sent today to Sri Lankan president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, CPJ welcomed her government's recent decision to lift censorship restrictions on the Sri Lankan media. The letter also urged the president to lift access restrictions that still impede reporting on the country's long-running civil war. In addition…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260