{"id":27846,"date":"2021-02-05T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/whistleblower-vice-chancellor-deported-after-midnight-raid-by-fiji-police"},"modified":"2021-02-05T04:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:00:57","slug":"whistleblower-vice-chancellor-deported-after-midnight-raid-by-fiji-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27846","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower vice-chancellor deported after midnight raid by Fiji police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presence of Pal Ahluwalia deemed \u2018prejudicial to peace\u2019: a report by the vice-chancellor alleged widespread financial mismanagement at University of the South Pacific<\/p>\n<p>Fiji police have carried out a midnight raid at the home of the vice-chancellor of the prestigious University of the South Pacific and summarily deported him on orders of the prime minister, in a move described by students as a \u201ccoup\u201d and likened by staff to \u201cgestapo tactics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 15 immigration, police and military officials forced their way into Pal Ahluwalia\u2019s home in Suva on Wednesday night, revoked his work permit and escorted the vice-chancellor and his wife, Sandra Price, to Nadi international airport. He was then forced on to a flight under military guard to Australia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/whistleblower-vice-chancellor-deported-after-midnight-raid-by-fiji-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presence of Pal Ahluwalia deemed \u2018prejudicial to peace\u2019: a report by the vice-chancellor alleged widespread financial mismanagement at University of the South PacificFiji police have carried out a midnight raid at the home of the vice-chancellor of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27846","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\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27847,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27846\/revisions\/27847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}