{"id":22317,"date":"2020-09-02T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/02\/jose-ramos-horta-urges-australia-to-drop-witness-k-and-bernard-collaery-prosecution"},"modified":"2020-09-02T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:46:32","slug":"jose-ramos-horta-urges-australia-to-drop-witness-k-and-bernard-collaery-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22317","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta urges Australia to drop Witness K and Bernard Collaery prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president says Australia and Timor-Leste should put the bugging scandal behind them<\/p>\n<p>The former Timor-Leste president Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta has urged Australia to show wisdom, honesty and compassion by stopping the unfair prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery, a case he described as \u201cpolitical\u201d and one that had \u201cprofoundly shocked\u201d the Timorese people.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos-Horta, a Nobel peace prize winner, said the pair should be allowed to live out the rest of their lives in normality and that Australia and Timor-Leste should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/aug\/10\/witness-k-and-the-outrageous-spy-scandal-that-failed-to-shame-australia\">put the bugging scandal<\/a> \u2013 a \u201cdark cloud\u201d on an otherwise positive bilateral relationship \u2013 behind them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/02\/jose-ramos-horta-urges-australia-to-drop-witness-k-and-bernard-collaery-prosecution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president says Australia and Timor-Leste should put the bugging scandal behind themThe former Timor-Leste president Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta has urged Australia to show wisdom, honesty and compassion by stopping the unfair prosecution of Witness K and B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"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":[41,43,324,769,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-law-australia","category-timor-leste"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317","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\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions\/22318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}