The interim government said the US State Department Report on Human Rights has a lot of inaccuracies.
Interim Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said the State Department should have taken the interim government comments before compiling such shallow human rights reports.
Sayed-Khaiyum said he will write a letter of complaint to the US government on the matter.
The latest US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices states that Commodore Frank Bainimarama's interim government denied citizens of Fiji the right to change their government peacefully.
According to the report, a state of emergency in effect for half of the year significantly restricted constitutional provisions for freedom of expression, movement, and assembly and subjected the right to privacy to the military's interpretation without recourse to the courts.
The report further states that under the interim government, the military and police arbitrarily detained and sometimes abused individuals, resulting in three deaths, conducted searches without warrants, engaged in intimidation of the media and restricted the right to assemble peacefully.
US Report Has Inaccuracies – Interim Govt
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