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Ex-Fiji PM Mahendra Chaudhry arrested by military regime | Former Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has been arrested for allegedly breaching the military government’s emergency regulations. According to the BBC, Chaudhry, who is leader of the opposition Fiji
Labour Party, was detained with five other people for holding public meetings
in breach of the regulations, imposed last year. He is expected to face court
on Monday. Voreqe Bainimarama, who seized power in a 2006 coup, imposed emergency
regulations that ban public meetings when he abrogated the constitution in April
last year. Chaudhry became Fiji ’s first ethnic Indian leader when elected Prime
Minister in 1999. He was overthrown a year later in a coup led by hardline Fijian
nationalist leader George Speight.
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