{"id":24439,"date":"2020-11-04T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/04\/png-police-chief-raises-fears-officers-may-have-been-raping-women-inside-station"},"modified":"2020-11-04T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:00:56","slug":"png-police-chief-raises-fears-officers-may-have-been-raping-women-inside-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24439","title":{"rendered":"PNG police chief raises fears officers may have been raping women inside station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New provincial commander says he is concerned by allegations of rape and sexual assault by officers in Alotau Town<\/p>\n<p>Two policemen have been charged with rape allegedly committed inside a police station in Alotau Town, in Papua New Guinea\u2019s south-east, but the city\u2019s most senior officer said he fears others sexual assaults may have been committed by police, with victims too afraid to report attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can honestly say that this practice may have been going on for a while,\u201d Milne Bay provincial police commander Peter Barkie told the Guardian. \u201cI\u2019ve heard about it but since taking office I can only confirm two [alleged] cases, who were charged during my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/04\/png-police-chief-raises-fears-officers-may-have-been-raping-women-inside-station\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New provincial commander says he is concerned by allegations of rape and sexual assault by officers in Alotau TownTwo policemen have been charged with rape allegedly committed inside a police station in Alotau Town, in Papua New Guinea\u2019s south-east, bu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"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":[41,874,267,636,242,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-police","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","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\/24439","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\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439\/revisions\/24440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}