A notice on the "Prohibition on Publication and Transmission of Sensitive Military Information" was issued by Rajapakse to prevent any reports on military operations as well as plans to buy equipment for security forces or the police.

The government is to appoint a "competent authority" to enforce the censorship, the notice said, although a spokesman for the information ministry said it had yet to work out the implementation of the new regulation.

Under the terms of the new regulations, editors could be jailed for up to five years for breaking the censorship, together with a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.

Sri Lanka's government had previously imposed censorship with similar restrictions for three years up until May 2001

Some media analysts from Colombo quoting on the conditions of the anonymity as the new regulations is to implemented by the Srilankan government said , the media freedom in srilanka is already questioned and seems more vulnerable due to many harassments continuingly restricted on media persons by the Government.

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