The Solomon Islands government is poised to give certain civil society groups 30 days' notice of their deregistration under the Charitable Trusts Act.
The Solomon Star newspaper reports that reform of the act will result in the deregistration of Forum Solomon Islands International, the Anti-Corruption Network of Solomon Islands and the Malaita Ma'asina Forum.
The anti-corruption network's acting chief executive Barnabas Henson is reported as saying the move is aimed at suppressing efforts to advocate against high-end political corruption.
He says it is also a strategy to deter progress on a petition calling on the prime minister Gordon Darcy Lilo to resign as well as a demonstration of Mr Lilo's intense will to suppress freedom of expression.
But a senior government official says under the Charitable Trusts Act such groups are not allowed to carry out political activities.
He says they should register as political parties or arrange for members of parliament to act for them.
