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Sri Lanka's election commission has said it will censor the political coverage of a state-owned TV station after accusing it of bias against the former president's brother, who is running in the country's upcoming presidential election.The unprecedented move came after the Independent Television Network (ITN) aired a programme alleging loyalists to the previous government had thwarted a corruption probe into the family of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.via: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/sri-lanka-election-commission-censors-state-tv-lead-vote-191103074339338.html?fbclid=IwAR3w-ueohObU-6z-MV75qV2bW_X0Hsx551AhzQ6va-AfDbONGTkTa5tW-LQ