April 14, 2009 12:49pm by David Farrar

Blogs only uncensored news from Fiji

The blogs are now the only source of uncensored news from Fiji. The media are now now allowed to report news that is “negative”. And even the blogs are at risk – there is talk that the Commodore has ordered Fijian telcos to cut off Internet access to Fiji.

I encourage people to read and promote these blogs. Also I am always happy to do a guest post from any Fijians who don’t want to set their own blog up.

And here is the news that they don’t want people to know:

Fiji Reserve Bank Governor arrested
Two Fiji Sun journalists detained
A Fiji TV reporter detained
TV3’s Sia Ashton detained and deported
Fiji Times publisher to be deported
The former head of the military legal service appointed a High Court Judge and another military person as Court Registrar
That Internet access may be cut off in the very near future.
Soldiers have taken control of banks and petrol stations
The head of the Dept of Public Prosecutions has been arrested
The President of the Fiji Law Society may have been arrested

I suspect Fiji is going to have a run on its foreign reserves, due to the Reserve Bank sacking.

Hat Tip: Andrew Bartlett and Roarprawn