A former Fiji opposition MP and a political party president convicted and sentenced to jail for sedition are planning to lodge an appeal within a week.
Former Fiji opposition MP Mosese Bulitavu speaks to a gathering of leaders. Photo: Mosese Bulitavu/Facebook Page
FBC News reported the former SODELPA MP Mosese Bulitavu and the United Freedom Party president Jagath Karunaratne were refused bail pending their appeal.
They were sentenced on Monday to jail terms of nearly two and a half years each for graffiti, spray painted at various places in Suva and Nausori in 2011.
FBC News reported Bulitavu's lawyer Lynda Tabuya saying they planned to appeal against both the convictions and the sentences.