The General Secretary of Fiji's Media Association says the detention of foreign journalists overnight in police cells is very damaging and punishes the country's image.
Three Newsroom reporters from New Zealand spent 13 hours in police cells in Suva after trying to interview the Chinese developer behind controversial environmental damage on the Fiji's Malolo Island.
Stanley Simpson says the media in Fiji has come through a very tough decade and to see this kind of mindset among certain police officers is shocking.
He spoke with Jenny Meyer just moments after the journalists had been released.
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Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings and investigations editor Melanie Reid were held overnight at the main Suva police station. Photo: File photo