17 Aug 2015

More people in custody in Fiji over "breakaway state"

2:08 pm on 17 August 2015

Reports from Fiji say more people have been rounded up by police in relation to attempts to form a breakaway state in the main island of Viti Levu.

FBC News reports 16 people are expected to appear in the Sigatoka Magistrate Court this afternoon in relation to sedition allegations.

Several groups of people appeared in court last week facing charges of sedition.

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