Updated Mar 03, 2021 | 12:04 IST
The latest development comes just weeks after Colombo decided to reverse course on a 2019 agreement that would have seen India and Japan build the East Container Terminal at the Colombo Port. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. | Photo Credit: PTI
Key Highlights
According to the latest reports, the Indian High Commission in Colombo has “approved” the offer, yet no statement has been released from India s Ministry of External Affairs
Following Sri Lanka s difficulties in servicing Chinese debt, the government ceded ownership of the China-financed Hambantota Port Project with Colombo giving the port on lease to Beijing for a period of 99 years in December 2017
Minorities were not being given even their due, India’s first secretary at UN Pawan Badhe said in New Delhi’s right to reply after Pakistan yet again raked up the Kashmir issue.
But he said now that China wields greater influence globally, he senses that authorities are much more interested in control than ever before. Tightening control over the media has been a feature of Chinese President Xi Jinping s leadership, and from the start of China s coronavirus outbreak, it appears the government has become more intolerant of criticism.
WATCH | Why it s in China s interest to restrict foreign media:
Does China need foreign media anymore?
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1:54China wields so much power on the global stage these days that it is less concerned about how foreign media makes the country look than in the past, says Keith Richburg, director of the University of Hong Kong s Journalism and Media Studies Centre and a former China correspondent for the Washington Post.1:54
Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 03 2021
L-R. Human Rights lawyer Eronie Kiiza with some of the journalists who were tortured at the offices of UN Human Rights Headquarters in Kololo; John Cliff Wamala, Josephine Namakumbi, and Shamim Nabakooza at High Court in Kampala on March 03, 2021. PHOTO | ABUBAKER LUBOWA.
Summary
Last month, several journalists were admitted to hospitals with serious injuries which they sustained when military police assaulted them while covering the National Unity Platform (NUP) president, Robert Kyagulanyi as he delivered a petition to United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) offices in Kololo, Kampala.
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Four journalists who were beaten at the United Nations Officers in Kololo last month have dragged the government to court over the continued harassment.