Articles Tagged: attacks

An Australian newspaper publisher has been deported from Fiji amid concerns over freedom of speech an human rights in the country. Ewan Hannah, the publisher of the Fiji Times was put on a flight to South Korea after a judge ruled he had broken visa conditions. This makes him the second Australian journalist to have been expelled from the country in recent months. Fiji?s government, which came to power in a coup in 2006, has been widely criticised by rights groups and governments in the regio

Ousted leader Laisenia Qarase and other critics are deluding themselves if they believe Fiji will return to its pre-coup system of governance, its self-appointed prime minister Frank Bainimarama says.

Attacks on the Press in 2007 Bangladesh in the World Report Source: Committee to Protect Journalists Despite stated commitments to democratic reform and media freedom, Bangladesh?s military-backed government dealt a series of crippling blows to what had been one of the freest presses in Asia. Operating under an official state of emergency and faced with a series of written orders and verbal directives governing media coverage, a famously voluble press corps grew increasingly muted. On January

A Fiji internet blog has called for attacks on tourists and has provided recipes for making Molotov cocktails and bombs.

Fiji's military commander and Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has accused the country's rugby union of doing the nation a disservice when it invited "the enemy of the day" - a New Zealander - to be chief guest at a Junior All Blacks game in Suva.

THREE Australian aid workers have been victims of violent attacks in Fiji amid a wave of lawlessness in the capital over the past two weeks.