SYDNEY (Pacnews) — Deported Fiji Times managing director Evan Hannah says he will continue to do his job from offices in the city of Sydney, Radio Australia reports
Hannah was expelled from Fiji on Friday. It was 11 weeks ago that another Australian, Fiji Sun publisher Russell Hunter, was also thrown out of the country.
Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Steven Smith said Hanna’s deportation and the conduct of the interim Fiji government is reprehensible and deserves nothing but condemnation by the international community.
Hannah was forced out despite a High Court intervention order which is now the subject of a hearing today.
He said he does not think the hearing would achieve much.
“I don’t think it is going to resolve much except some legal issues and some clarity about how the government has to behave from now on if it chooses to follow the rule of law,” Hannah said. “We have some challenges ahead about the actual validity of the deportation order in terms of referring to me as a threat to national security or in some breach of my work permit.”
