On September 14, Tamil journalist and union treasurer Punniyamoorthy Sasikaran was the subject of an interrogation by Sri Lankan police, the third occasion he has been questioned in the past three months. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Sri Lanka affiliate, the Federation of Media Employees Trade Union (FMETU), condemns these repeated interrogations by local authorities that work to constrain press freedom by enforce self-censorship.