COLOMBO Reuters - Sri Lankan newspapers on Tuesday published pictures of mainly women police said had acted in locally produced pornographic films, part of a court-ordered crackdown and the latest sign of growing social conservatism. Police have identified 83 people they say have acted in the films found on websites, and got a court order to have media outlets publish their pictures to help locate the suspects.
The move is part of a crackdown on pornography in the Indian Ocean nation of 21 million. The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has already blocked around porn sites and police have been arresting people with porn in their mobile phones. Sri Lanka is a Buddhist majority nation, which also has Hindus, Muslims and Christians, and traditional values and more liberal social norms have generally co-existed well during its modern history. But there have been growing signs of conservatism.
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