Fiji's military regime may have lifted emergency rule after three years but press freedom has not been restored.
According to the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF), a media decree passed in June 2010 remains in force.
Last month, the government led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama also introduced a decree that exempts him and ministers from defamation suits - but not other people.
The PFF said: "A leadership which protects itself but not its people from defamation suits cannot expect that to be welcome news."
Emergency rule was imposed in April 2009 after a court ruled that Bainimarama's 2006 coup was unlawful. The media decree followed.
It forced the country's leading newspaper publisher, Rupert Murdoch's Australian-based division, to sell off its media interests in 2010.
Sources: PFF/fijivillage
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