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'Stop taking my photos': PM tells Samoa Observer photographer

By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo • 20 January 2026, 10:40AM

A Samoa Observer photographer was ordered to stop taking photographs by Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt as he arrived for the first sitting of parliament for the year. At the same time, his bodyguard instructed him to delete the images.

By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo • 20 January 2026, 10:40AM

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'Stop taking my photos': PM tells Samoa Observer photographer

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