Daily Post case adjourned
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A COURT case in Suva in which three journalists have been accused of malicious publication, has been ad journed for three months following representations by their lawyer. Pub lisher Taniela Bolea, sub-editor Robert Wendt and reporter Subash Verma of The Daily Post newspaper have been charged under Fiji’s Public Order Act.
Chief Magistrate Apaitia Seru ordered the adjournment on the 14th of last month after the defence lawyer said he
had written to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions asking that the charges be reviewed. The charges were laid subsequent to a demonstration last October by a group of disgruntled ethnic Indians who allegedly burned a copy of Fiji’s new constitution outside a Hindu temple in protest at provisions favouring indigenous Fijians over ethnic Indians.
The journalists were arrested and bailed after the paper published an article claiming that a second demonstration was being planned. □