Several speakers invited to this month's UNESCO-backed youth festival in Fiji, have been banned by the ruling military government.

The Pacific Youth Festival is the latest casualty of Frank Bainimarama's crackdown on freedom of speech.

Speakers for the Society of Accountants were also banned recently, while a Methodist Church Congress was cancelled altogether.

Pacific Youth Festival organiser Jacque Koroi says the Ministry of Information vetted the guest list and then banned some guests from addressing the conference.

2SER's Biwa Kwan reports.