Nauru - “Unacceptable” increase in journalist visa fee to 8,000 dollars

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the decision by the Micronesian island nation of Nauru, which hosts an Australian government detention centre for asylum-seekers, to increase the cost of a journalist visa from 200 to 8,000 US dollars – an increase of nearly 4,000 per cent. “The new price of a visa is out of all proportion and is nothing less than ban on foreign media visits to this island state,” Reporters Without Borders said. “This measure can have only one aim, to dissuade (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 14 janvier 2014