The government has called on Amnesty International to reveal the facts and not base its report on Fiji titled "Paradise Lost" on allegations.
Permanent Secretary for Information, Lt Colonel Neumi Leweni said Amnesty International's call for international action due to human rights abuses in Fiji are baseless.
Pacific Amnesty International's researcher Apolosi Bose, who was in Fiji after the abrogation of the constitution in April, prepared the report.
Bose stated in the report that human rights abuses in Fiji include beatings, arbitrary arrests and detention, harassment of human rights defenders, severe limitations on the fundamental rights to freedom of expression, opinion and association.
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