Fiji Labour Party Leader Mahendra Chaudhry is still being questioned at Totogo Police Station in relation to comments uttered during a Pacific Dialogue panel discussion last week.
Chaudhry has been at the police station since about 3pm yesterday.
Chaudhry told Fijivillage that Police came looking for him at his residence in Suva on Saturday however he was in the Western Division.
NFP Leader Professor Biman Prasad, SODELPA Leader Sitiveni Rabuka, Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions General Secretary Attar Singh, Jone Dakuvula and Tupeni Baba who were taken in for questioning by Police on Saturday afternoon, were released last night.
The investigation file has been forwarded to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for sanctioning.
Fijivillage has been informed that Police are focusing on alleged inciteful comments made in the meeting.
We have also received information that Police searched the houses of some of the people taken in for questioning.
Kamal Iyer who is in charge of the NFP office at Princes Road confirms that Police searched the NFP office and went away with NFP Leader Biman Prasad’s laptop.
Iyer says that he had asked for the search warrant and the warrant stated that they were looking for a circular and minutes of a meeting held on 5th September, 2016.
Jone Dakuvula was the organizer of the meeting held in Suva on the 5th of September.
Meanwhile Amnesty International has released a statement calling for the unconditional release of the people detained.
Rafendi Djamin, Amnesty International’s Director for South East Asia and the Pacific says the men appear to have been detained under the Public Order Amendment Decree which restricts the ability to hold public meetings.
Amnesty International says the office of the NFP has been raided by police, with documents and computers confiscated.
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