Charlotte Gallagher

wherever you are.

According to the information I read, he could have reached the police or somebody who could have helped any time.

And as a matter of fact, the police tried to call him several times and he turned down the calls.

He didn't answer and he put his phone even into the backpack.

Evan Davis speaking to the law professor Severin Glazer.

The long-serving former Fijian Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, and a former police commissioner have been arrested and charged with inciting mutiny on the South Pacific island.

They're accused of mobilising the Fijian military after the general election in 2022.

Our Pacific Islands correspondent, Katie Watson, first told me more about the former Prime Minister.

Frank Bainimarama, who was in the Navy, who was a UN peacekeeper...

And he led Fiji for 16 years.

He took power in a coup in 2006.

And he became a really prominent politician in the Pacific.

So he advocated strongly around climate change.

But he was also accused of restricting freedom of speech and intimidating his critics and causing quite difficult relationships between the likes of Australia and New Zealand.

Now, when he

took power in 2006 in this coup, he said that the army was the only institution disciplined enough to usher in real reform.

He described it as a long overdue cleanup.

So he remained in power until 2022.

And that's where this, well, now this arrest and charges stems from.

So what has he been charged with?