{"id":22254,"date":"2020-08-31T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/31\/investigations-into-police-and-prison-violence-blocked-by-fiji-authorities-whistleblowers"},"modified":"2020-08-31T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:00:47","slug":"investigations-into-police-and-prison-violence-blocked-by-fiji-authorities-whistleblowers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22254","title":{"rendered":"Investigations into police and prison violence blocked by Fiji authorities, whistleblowers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: Allegations of brutality in Fiji\u2019s prisons have been effectively ignored by the government\u2019s human rights commission, insiders claim<\/p>\n<p>Complaints against police and prison officers \u2013 including of a violent assault against a young inmate \u2013 have been blocked from being investigated by authorities, whistleblowers inside Fiji\u2019s human rights watchdog have claimed, expressing concern the body is not independent of government influence.<\/p>\n<p>Current and former employees of the Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission have alleged investigators are regularly refused access to victims of alleged assaults by Fijian authorities, and that some rights violations by police or corrections officers are disregarded or not investigated properly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/31\/investigations-into-police-and-prison-violence-blocked-by-fiji-authorities-whistleblowers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Allegations of brutality in Fiji\u2019s prisons have been effectively ignored by the government\u2019s human rights commission, insiders claimComplaints against police and prison officers \u2013 including of a violent assault against a young inmate \u2013 have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1538,"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":[41,436,53,86,874,636,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-human-rights","category-law","category-pacific-islands","category-police","category-south-pacific","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\/22254","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\/1538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions\/22255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}