Fiji Times

Call for Fiji Times sedition charge to be dropped

The Fiji Office of Director of Public Prosecutions charged the newspaper with sedition after earlier accusing it and its senior staff of inciting communal antagonism over a newspaper article.

The case relates to an article published in the vernacular iTaukei newspaper Nai Lalakai on April 27 last year.

Amnesty's Pacific Researcher Kate Schuetze said the charges were very serious and should be dropped.

Ms Schuetze said it showed there was still suppression of freedom of expression in Fiji.