{"id":12319,"date":"2019-12-20T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T02:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/20\/nauru-19-members-jailed-over-protest-against-crackdown-on-opposition-mps"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T02:17:44","slug":"nauru-19-members-jailed-over-protest-against-crackdown-on-opposition-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12319","title":{"rendered":"Nauru 19 members jailed over protest against crackdown on opposition MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lead defendant Mathew Batsiua sentenced to 18 months for riot over 2015 demonstration while others receive lesser terms<\/p>\n<p>A group of protesters known as the Nauru 19 have been sentenced to jail after a highly controversial retrial for charges stemming from a 2015 protest.<\/p>\n<p>The <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\">long-running prosecution of the group<\/a> relates to a 2015 demonstration against Nauru government crackdowns on judicial officers and opposition MPs, during which authorities arrested and charged 19 demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/20\/nauru-19-members-jailed-over-protest-against-crackdown-on-opposition-mps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead defendant Mathew Batsiua sentenced to 18 months for riot over 2015 demonstration while others receive lesser termsA group of protesters known as the Nauru 19 have been sentenced to jail after a highly controversial retrial for charges stemming fro&#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":[41,629,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319","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=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12320,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions\/12320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}