{"id":18277,"date":"2020-05-16T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/ex-officers-accuse-fijis-prison-commissioner-of-ordering-staff-to-beat-inmates"},"modified":"2020-05-16T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:39:25","slug":"take-him-down-fijis-prison-commissioner-accused-of-ordering-staff-to-beat-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18277","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Take him down&#8217;: Fiji&#8217;s prison commissioner accused of ordering staff to beat inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Four former prison officers seeking asylum in Australia claim Francis Kean, brother-in-law of Fiji\u2019s PM, ran a brutal campaign of intimidation <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/people-come-out-worse-my-time-inside-fijis-broken-prison-system\">\u2018People come out worse\u2019: my time inside Fiji\u2019s broken prison system<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four former prison officers from Fiji are seeking asylum in Australia claiming the prime minister\u2019s brother-in-law, who is the commissioner of the corrections service, routinely ordered the beating and mistreatment of prisoners and at one point ordered them to assault a fellow staff member.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed accounts given to the Guardian by the four officers claim Francis Kean, a powerful figure inside Fiji, waged a brutal campaign of intimidation, coercion, bullying and violence on both prisoners and staff \u2013 which human rights campaigners say may amount to torture \u2013 with impunity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/ex-officers-accuse-fijis-prison-commissioner-of-ordering-staff-to-beat-inmates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Four former prison officers seeking asylum in Australia claim Francis Kean, brother-in-law of Fiji\u2019s PM, ran a brutal campaign of intimidation \u2018People come out worse\u2019: my time inside Fiji\u2019s broken prison systemFour former prison officers fro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1311,"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":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","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\/18277","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\/1311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277\/revisions\/18278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}