In May 2009 British Journalist Nick Patton was deported when Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, an American who previously worked as a computer systems administrator in Southern California, called him to deliver the news personally:(quote)
"Is this Channel 4? You have been accusing my soldiers of raping civilians? Your visa is cancelled, you will be deported. You can report what you like about this country, but from your own country, not from here."
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SOURCE: https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/sri-lanka-deports-another-journalist/
In fact a documentary on the EXILEd Journalists of Sri lanka was taken by the award winning Noregian dir. Beate Arnested: 'Silenced voices'. This documentary was shown by Human Rights Watch in New York, in the Film Festival