{"id":26806,"date":"2021-01-14T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/fijis-attorney-general-wont-face-charges-over-1987-bombings"},"modified":"2021-01-14T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:54:26","slug":"fijis-attorney-general-wont-face-charges-over-1987-bombings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26806","title":{"rendered":"Fiji&#8217;s attorney general won&#8217;t face charges over 1987 bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor says there is \u2018insufficient evidence\u2019 to charge Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, one of Fiji\u2019s most powerful political figures<\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s public prosecutor has dismissed a case against the country\u2019s attorney general, saying there is insufficient evidence to charge him in relation to two bombings in Suva more than 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A six-month police investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/25\/fiji-gripped-as-attorney-general-investigated-for-cold-case-bomb-attack\">Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum\u2019s alleged role in the political bombings<\/a> did not produce sufficient evidence for the public prosecutor to press charges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/fijis-attorney-general-wont-face-charges-over-1987-bombings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor says there is \u2018insufficient evidence\u2019 to charge Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, one of Fiji\u2019s most powerful political figuresFiji\u2019s public prosecutor has dismissed a case against the country\u2019s attorney general, saying there is insufficient evidence to &#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":[41,436,874,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/26806","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=26806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26808,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26806\/revisions\/26808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}