News Articles Tagged: press
Fiji Promulgates Media Law Further Restricting Press Freedom - International Press Institute (press
 ABC Online | Fiji Promulgates Media Law Further Restricting Press Freedom International Press Institute (press release) Fiji coup leader and self-appointed Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama speaks at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in ... Fiji bans foreign press ownership in new media crackdown Fiji regime imposes tough new media contrals Forced divestment will kill newspaper |
Insight Report: Is Fiji on the verge of another coup? - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Insight Report: Is Fiji on the verge of another coup? Scoop.co.nz (press release) There could very well be a third coup in Fiji very soon, this time from inside the barracks. The word from reliable sources in Suva (who wish to remain ... |
Profile: From coup to crown – Kabakoro proves more than a beauty queen - Scoop.co.nz (press releas
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Profile: From coup to crown – Kabakoro proves more than a beauty queen Scoop.co.nz (press release) After witnessing 30 machete-armed men raid her home during the Fiji coup in 2000, an eight-year old Hosanna Kabakoro relocated with her family from Naweni ... |
New Press Law Gives Sweeping Powers to Fiji'S Military - Salem-News.Com
 Salem-News.Com | New Press Law Gives Sweeping Powers to Fiji'S Military Salem-News.Com The measures were put into force shortly after the 2006 coup was declared unlawful by the Fiji Court of Appeal. While the Bainimarama government says the ... |
New Press Law Gives Sweeping Powers to Fiji'S Military Regime - Salem-News.Com
Salem-News.Com | New Press Law Gives Sweeping Powers to Fiji'S Military Regime Salem-News.Com The measures were put into force shortly after the 2006 coup was declared unlawful by the Fiji Court of Appeal. While the Bainimarama government says the ... |
Background Note: Fiji - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Background Note: Fiji Scoop.co.nz (press release) On January 15, 2007, President Iloilo decreed amnesty to Bainimarama, the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF), and all those involved in the coup from ... |
Smith condemns Fiji's press crackdown - The Australian
 New Zealand Herald | Smith condemns Fiji's press crackdown The Australian Former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka, the first coup leader, who was elected in 1992 and held power until 1999, said last night The Fiji Times had been ... New rules threaten top Fiji daily Fiji bans foreign press ownership in new media crackdown Key concerned by media treatment in Fiji |
Winston Peters Address to Political Students - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Winston Peters Address to Political Students Scoop.co.nz (press release) We don't like these coups in places like Fiji and we do everything we can to restore democracy there but apparently it's a different story in our own back ... |
Insights into Tongan democracy, coup culture in Fiji - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Insights into Tongan democracy, coup culture in Fiji Scoop.co.nz (press release) Fiji was noticeably little discussed in this conference; however this closing presentation added a new interpretation to Fiji's coup culture and sparked ... |
Fiji: The pros and cons of a military regime - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Fiji: The pros and cons of a military regime Scoop.co.nz (press release) Who doubts today that had it not been for the successful 1987 coup by Rabuka, those of 2000 and 2006 would have been far less likely. The Fiji public ... |
Govt rejects Fiji coup link to NZ (The Press)
The Government has rejected claims New Zealand diplomats and soldiers were linked to a plot to assassinate Fiji coup leader Frank Bainimarama.
UN - Daily Press Briefing by the Offices of the Spokesperson for the Secretary ... - ISRIA (registra
UN - Daily Press Briefing by the Offices of the Spokesperson for the Secretary ... ISRIA (registration) However, since the December 2006 coup, there has been no increase in the number of Fijian troops participating in existing operations or any participation ... |
Fiji's children face bleak future as global crisis hits economy - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Fiji's children face bleak future as global crisis hits economy Scoop.co.nz (press release) Economically, Fiji was already on its knees when the financial crisis hit, with the country experiencing its fourth military coup barely a year earlier on ... |
Indo-Fijians and ethnic violence of the 2000 coup - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Indo-Fijians and ethnic violence of the 2000 coup Scoop.co.nz (press release) She detailed some of her findings in her recent book on the 2000 coup in Fiji – State of suffering: Political violence and community survival in Fiji. ... |
In Ban's UN, Tinker Bell and Bolton, Kentucky Fried Scapegoats - Inner City Press
 Inner City Press | In Ban's UN, Tinker Bell and Bolton, Kentucky Fried Scapegoats Inner City Press It was sponsored by Fiji, and headlined by C-FAM, which denounced Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin for "redefining gender" and addressing gay rights. ... |
Watchdog: Political conflict dents media freedom in Thailand, Fiji - Earthtimes (press release)
Watchdog: Political conflict dents media freedom in Thailand, Fiji Earthtimes (press release) Fiji's military coup caused it to sink 73 places to 152nd as troops entered newsrooms to censor stories and foreign journalists were deported. ... |
Many more Fiji media questions need answers - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Many more Fiji media questions need answers Scoop.co.nz (press release) Has anybody dared to ask why since the unceremonious removal of Vijendra Kumar as editor of The Fiji Times by first coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka, ... |
Media 'investigates' Somare's upbeat comments about Fiji regime - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
 Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Media 'investigates' Somare's upbeat comments about Fiji regime Scoop.co.nz (press release) Fiji needed “time to get out of its political mayhem”. Radio New Zealand International reported Sir Michael as saying post-coup Fiji was like any democratic ... |
Mahatma Ghandi and Liberty of the Press : Lesson for Fiji and Indo-Fijian coup apologists
By VICTOR LAL In 1889 the British led Government of India published an Amendment in the Indian Official Secrets Act of 1889, coinciding with Mahatma Gandhi’s own newspaper The Indian Opinion in South Africa. Though his contemporaries in India were facing various repressive measures under Press Acts, Gandhi was not, during his entire stay in South Africa, handicapped in running his paper. The great Russian pacifist, Leo Tolstoy’s letter to Gandhi – Letter to a Hindoo – was published in the Ind
FIJI: Aussie Journo Expelled on Press Freedom Day Eve - Inter Press Service (subscription)
FIJI: Aussie Journo Expelled on Press Freedom Day Eve Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - ... the coup of December 2006 which has resulted in the severe erosion of fundamental human rights, freedom of the press, and the rule of law in Fiji," said ... |