Printing press sealed after "Mahinda's polls rigging" Poster

(Lanka-e-News,) "Mahinda's polls rigging ? with Wanni Tigers in 2005; with Batticaloa Tigers in 2008" was the slogan of a UNP poster stuck in Colombo and suburbs in the past few days.
Police surrounded the Samanala Graphic printing press of Weli Para, Nawala since yesterday 9 PM and searched it this afternoon (20). Police ordered to suspend all print runs and kept two police officials to guard the press until this afternoon.
While the poster said clearly that it was printed by the UNP, Police said that the name of the press was not in the imprint, stated that it was a subversive act and took away the printing plate.
Thinamurasu, the official newspaper of Minister Douglas Devananda's EPDP party is also printed in this press. Police accused the printer that they were printing Tigers' newspapers.
UNP MP Wajira Abewardhana said this morning at a press conference held in Colombo that the government was suppressing the press freedom at any given moment and a press that printed a poster related to the Provincial Council election of the Eastern Province had been sealed.