Wellington - Military leaders in Fiji, who ousted the government in a coup earlier this month, have ordered the editor of the daily Fiji Post newspaper deported, according to reports from the capital Suva on Friday.
The editor, Robert Wolfgramm, was born in Fiji but has been an Australian citizen since 1989.
He told the Fiji Times his removal was probably because the paper has been 'a voice for democracy' in the 20 months he had held the editor's post.
The Times said his immediate deportation was ordered after the Post was warned to tone down the content of images and anti-military sentiment it had been publishing since the coup by military chief Commander Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama on December 5.
The military was reported to be looking for the general manager of the Fiji Post, Mesake Koroi, a cousin of ousted prime minister Laisenia Qarase, who fled Suva to his home village on an outlying island after the coup.
