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Fiji Military Briefly Detains Reporter Over Sugar Industry

Thursday, 24 February 2011, 10:04 am
Press Release: Pacific Media Watch

Fiji Military Briefly Detains Reporter Over Sugar Industry Story
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=58948

SUVA (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): A Fiji Times journalist has been detained by the military over a report on the country’s sugar industry.

Emergency regulations allowing reporters to be questioned were to be cancelled when the interim regime’s media decree was imposed in June last year, but remain in place.

Felix Chaudhry is believed to be the first detainee in 2011.

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