{"id":12076,"date":"2019-12-12T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/nauru-19-found-guilty-of-rioting-and-other-charges-in-controversial-retrial"},"modified":"2019-12-12T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T03:23:21","slug":"nauru-19-found-guilty-of-rioting-and-other-charges-in-controversial-retrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12076","title":{"rendered":"Nauru 19 found guilty of rioting and other charges in controversial retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lead defendant Mathew Batsiua tells court \u2018history will absolve\u2019 the group who had \u2018stood up for democracy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A group of high-profile protesters known as the Nauru 19 have been found guilty of rioting and other charges after a widely condemned trial was rebooted. It comes after the Nauruan government created a new court and overturned a ruling which accused them of a \u201cshameful affront to the rule of law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the lead defendants, all of whom are now held in remand awaiting sentencing, told the court \u201chistory will absolve the Nauru 19\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/nauru-19-found-guilty-of-rioting-and-other-charges-in-controversial-retrial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead defendant Mathew Batsiua tells court \u2018history will absolve\u2019 the group who had \u2018stood up for democracy\u2019A group of high-profile protesters known as the Nauru 19 have been found guilty of rioting and other charges after a widely condemned trial was r&#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":[41,43,769,629,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-law-australia","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\/12076","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=12076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}