The Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption has maintained its objections to citizen journalist Charlier Charters’ application for variation of his bail conditions to allow him to travel to the United Kingdom to attend his uncle’s funeral.
The hearing proceeded before Magistrate Shageeth Somaratne yesterday in the Suva Magistrate’s Court.
Mr Charters is charged under section 45 of the Crimes Act and section 13(1)(g) of the FICAC Act 2007 with two counts of aiding and abetting a person, who was at the material time an officer of the commission, to commit an offence by publishing official information relating to the functions of the commission on his Facebook page without permission of the FICAC Commissioner.
A ruling will be delivered on April 7.
