Usaia Waqatairewa, President of the Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement, has told The Australian newspaper he is discussing arrangements with a Dutch group that owns a ship equipped for broadcasting. The Movement is planning to broadcast into Fiji from international waters to circumvent censorship.
(Source: The Australian)
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on Aug 22nd, 2010 at 10:21
Article in today’s Independent includes:
“In a move inspired by pirate radio stations of the 1960s, political activists in the South Pacific are planning to position a Dutch-registered merchant vessel in international waters off the coast of Fiji to defy censors in the military dictatorship.
Opponents of the coup leader and self-appointed Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, hope to have the station broadcasting news and interviews by the end of next month in an effort to circumvent draconian media laws imposed on the island state’s press, radio and television.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/pirate-radio-tries-to-beat-repression-in-paradise-2058866.html