Radio New Zealand International, August 7, 2007 About 20 Fiji nurses
who were arrested when they staged a protest outside the cabinet office
in Suva yesterday were released last night after a warning. The nurses
arrived in pairs holding up placards drawing attention to their strike
which is now in its fifteenth day. The general secretary of the Fiji
Nurses Association, Kuini Lutua, says they were abiding by the Public
Order Act by standing in twos. The nurses did not resist when they were
rounded up and taken to the Police Academy in Nasese for interviews.
Mrs Lutua says police treated them professionally and provided them
with lunch. ... Fiji