One News Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver was detained at Nadi Airport in Fiji on Monday night when she flew in to cover the latest diplomatic row between Fiji and New Zealand.Dreaver was detained while going through immigration and held in a detention centre overnight.
It is understood that she has now been put on a plane back to New Zealand.
"I'm not the first journalist to be sent away from Fiji and I guess I won't be the last," said Barbara Dreaver.
She had been sent to Fiji to cover Commodore Frank Bainimarama's threat to expel New Zealand's most senior diplomat in Fiji, acting high commissioner Caroline McDonald. Bainimarama has said this will happen if New Zealand does not grant a visa to the son of a top Fijian diplomat.
The only reason Barbara Dreaver was given for being detained was that she had been put on a watch list in July.
The rest of the TVNZ crew passed through immigration without any problems.
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