Sri Lanka blocks social media after more unrest

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COLOMBO Sri Lanka is temporarily blocking some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses. Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a man was beaten in the...

COLOMBO Sri Lanka is temporarily blocking some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses.

Authorities said they arrested the author of a Facebook post, identified as 38-year-old Abdul Hameed Mohamed Hasmar, whose online comment"1 day u will cry" was interpreted as threatening violence.

 

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