{"id":24623,"date":"2020-11-11T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/fiji-death-in-custody-reignites-debate-over-police-brutality"},"modified":"2020-11-11T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:00:16","slug":"fiji-death-in-custody-reignites-debate-over-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24623","title":{"rendered":"Fiji death in custody reignites debate over police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Figures obtained by the Guardian show Fiji police officers charged with 400 serious offences in five years, including murder, manslaughter, rape, and abduction<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses have rejected police claims a Fijian man who died in police custody jumped from a two-storey building to his death, instead alleging he was beaten by officers, reigniting debate across Fiji over the use of force by police officers and allegations of systematic brutality.<\/p>\n<p>The death in violent circumstances of Mesake Sinu, a 46-year-old indigenous Fijian man from Nadi, prompted Rusiate Tudravu, the acting commissioner of Fiji\u2019s police force, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3310906668958845&amp;id=300630806653128\">condemn indiscipline<\/a> among his own officers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3310906668958845&amp;id=300630806653128\">order an investigation<\/a> into Sinu\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/fiji-death-in-custody-reignites-debate-over-police-brutality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Figures obtained by the Guardian show Fiji police officers charged with 400 serious offences in five years, including murder, manslaughter, rape, and abductionWitnesses have rejected police claims a Fijian man who died in police custody jump&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1249,"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":[41,436,874,636,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-police","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\/24623","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\/1249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24624,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623\/revisions\/24624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}