{"id":15938,"date":"2020-03-17T11:12:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T02:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/samoan-chief-found-guilty-of-enslaving-villagers-in-new-zealand-over-25-years"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T02:12:45","slug":"samoan-chief-found-guilty-of-enslaving-villagers-in-new-zealand-over-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15938","title":{"rendered":"Samoan chief found guilty of enslaving villagers in New Zealand over 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Auga Matamata, who brought people to Hastings where they were forced to work without pay and subjected to abuse, also convicted of slavery<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand-based Samoan chief has been found guilty of human trafficking and using 13 of his countrymen as slaves over a 25 year period.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Auga Matamata, 65, also known as Villiamu Samu, was found guilty on 10 counts of trafficking and 13 counts of slavery following a five-week trial at the High Court in Napier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/samoan-chief-found-guilty-of-enslaving-villagers-in-new-zealand-over-25-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Auga Matamata, who brought people to Hastings where they were forced to work without pay and subjected to abuse, also convicted of slaveryA New Zealand-based Samoan chief has been found guilty of human trafficking and using 13 of his countrymen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"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":[41,725,86,56,936,713,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-trafficking","category-law","category-new-zealand","category-samoa","category-slavery","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\/15938","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\/1129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15939,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions\/15939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}