1:49 PM |
Fiji's leading newspaper has three months to change its ownership structure so 90 per cent of its shareholders are Fijian citizens or it will be forced to close, the military-led regime said Monday.
Armed forces chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama launched a media crackdown after seizing power in a December 2006 coup. Foreign reporters and media managers have been expelled, and dozens of local journalists arrested and interrogated. Military censors operate in media newsrooms on a daily basis.
Announcing the latest measures Monday, Fiji Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum warned any news organization that fails to comply with ownership requirements "shall cease to operate as a media organisation".
He mentioned by name the Fiji Times, the country's oldest and largest newspaper owned by News Ltd - the Australian branch of Rupert Murdoch's New York-based News Corp. News Ltd did not immediately respond to the government's decree.
For full article see: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10655084
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