An Australian journalist attending the Pacific Islands News Association Summit in Pacific Harbor has highlighted that the journalists attending the summit could not ask Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama any questions when he opened the meeting earlier this week.
Radio Australia’s Bruce Hill said the journalists were told that there would be no questions entertained.
He said the journalists attending were looking forward to asking the Prime Minister some questions.
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said the official opening of the conference was not a place to ask questions and Hill knows that.
Now Radio Australia is claiming in a report that Fiji’s Ministry of Information said the Pacific Islands News Association has imposed censorship on its own media gathering at the Pacific Media Summit.
We will have the report from Bruce Hill aired on Radio Australia and comments from Permanent Secretary for Information, Sharon Smith-Johns this afternoon.
Story by: Vijay Narayan
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