Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase is free to travel the High Court in Suva heard this morning. Qarase who is contesting the overthrow of his government by the military in December last year has been in exile in his village in the Lau Group for six months now.
He has not attended previous sessions of his litigation against military commander and interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama due to concerns that he would be detained under the Public Emergency Regulation if he came to Suva. Despite assurances by the authorities, the presiding judge-acting Chief Justice Anthony Gates today said while he acknowledges that the emergency regulations have been lifted, "unfortunately in Fiji it happens too often that when restraints are lifted, it is still enforced by ill-informed officers or individuals with extra zeal."
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