WHILE WELCOMING the move, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated, “The emergency law has seriously restricted the right to public assembly and freedom of expression, and given the authorities broad powers of arrest and detention.”

“I welcome the cancellation of the emergency law and encourage the Government to build on this positive momentum with concrete steps to ensure full respect for the rule of law and human rights,” reported Fiji Times.

During the emergency, opposition parties’ leaders and the critics of the Government were slapped with criminal charges and put into jails.

“I welcome the cancellation of the emergency law and encourage the Government to build on this positive momentum with concrete steps to ensure full respect for the rule of law and human rights.” added Navi Pillay.

With the lifting of emergency in Fiji, it is being hoped that the process of constitution-making will be completed before the elections to be held in 2014. A sizable number of people of Indian origin live in fiji and are a political force to reckon.

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