Fiji defies court order, deports second newspaper publisher

Fiji's military government defied a High Court order and deported the Australian publisher of the South Pacific country's leading newspaper Friday, continuing a campaign of media intimidation it began within days of seizing power.

The coup-installed government said Fiji Times publisher Evan Hannah was a threat to national security and breached his work permit conditions. He was put on a flight Friday to South Korea.

It was the second deportation of a senior media figure this year. In late February, Russell Hunter, the Australian-born publisher of The Sun, was deported for what Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama called "destabilizing" reporting.

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