{"id":10969,"date":"2019-11-11T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/nauru-19-pair-seek-asylum-in-australia-ahead-of-retrial-that-lawyers-say-is-rigged"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:24:29","slug":"nauru-19-pair-seek-asylum-in-australia-ahead-of-retrial-that-lawyers-say-is-rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10969","title":{"rendered":"Nauru 19 pair seek asylum in Australia ahead of retrial that lawyers say is rigged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Squire Jeremiah and Rutherford Jeremiah are among the group set to face a new trial beginning on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Two members of the so-called Nauru 19 have sought asylum in Australia ahead of a retrial this week. Lawyers say the trial has been rigged against the defendants, who have been denied any real legal representation.<\/p>\n<p>Squire Jeremiah and Rutherford Jeremiah arrived in Australia just days before a government-imposed travel ban, and have sought asylum ahead of a new trial ordered to begin on Monday. They join the wife of the former president Sprent Dabwido. Dabwido died in Australia after seeking asylum.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/nauru-19-pair-seek-asylum-in-australia-ahead-of-retrial-that-lawyers-say-is-rigged\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squire Jeremiah and Rutherford Jeremiah are among the group set to face a new trial beginning on MondayTwo members of the so-called Nauru 19 have sought asylum in Australia ahead of a retrial this week. Lawyers say the trial has been rigged against the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,629,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10970,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}