FTUC PRESIDENT DANIEL URAI LED TO HIS BAIL HEARING IN HANDCUFFS THIS MORNING (c) The Torture Watch
BREAKING NEWS:
MAGISTRATE DEFERS DANIEL URAI'S BAIL DECISION
Fiji Trades Union Congress President Daniel Urai had his application for bail deferred until 3.30pm today by the Magistrates' Court in Suva.
Urai is charged with 'urging political violence' against the military regime. He was led into a packed magistrates' court room number 4, handcuffed to another criminal suspect. This sight horrified many bystanders, friends and family members who had gathered in large numbers outside court due to the limited sitting inside court.
On hand to observe the proceedings were the representatives in Fiji of the International Labour Organisation, the Australian government, as well as local NGOs and journalists.
Urai was arrested after returning from meeting leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth on October 29. A decision on bail was to have been handed down this morning (November 9) but the magistrate said the matter was being "stood down" until the afternoon.
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