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| Title: | 5789 FIJI: IFJ challenges regime plans for new media law |
| Other Titles: | IFJ URGES WIDE CONSULTANTION ON FIJI’S MEDIA LAW |
| Keywords: | Fiji
media freedom
freedom of expression
free speech
media law
Media Promulgation
coups
Fiji coups
Attorney-General
The Fiji Times
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Laisenia Qarase
Voreqe Bainimarama
Fiji Sun
Russell Hunter
Evan Hannah
Serafina Silaitoga
Mahendra Chaudhry
Fiji Media Council
International Federation of Journalists |
| Issue Date: | 12-Nov-2008 |
| Publisher: | International Federation of Journalists - Pacific Media Watch |
| Abstract: | www.ifj.org
BRUSSELS (IFJ/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has serious reservations about efforts by Fiji's military government to draft and implement a new media law as the government continues to try to muzzle independent media reporting in the Pacific Island state.
As Fiji's Department of Information and the Attorney-General's Office announced their draft of a new media law to be made public in December, the former editor and publisher of the Fiji Times faces trial on charges of alleged contempt brought by the interim government.
The charge refers to the publication of a letter to the editor that criticised a recent High Court ruling which upheld the legality of the dismissal of the elected government of Laisenia Qarase in a military coup led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama in 2006. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1655 |
| Appears in Collections: | Pacific Media Watch nius
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