FIJI: Human Rights Commission wants to be intervener in Qarase case

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Updated September 11, 2007 15:47:51

Fiji's outgoing Director of the Human Rights Commission, Doctor Shaishta Shameem, will hear tomorrow if the High Court will allow her to act as an intevener in the Qarase case against the interim government. Doctor Shameem told judges in the case, Acting Chief Justice Anthony Gates and Justice John Byrnes that she wants to act as an intervener in the case and cross-examine a number of witnesses.

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