{"id":31748,"date":"2021-05-05T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T00:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/05\/un-raises-serious-human-rights-concerns-over-australia-india-travel-ban"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T00:35:27","slug":"un-raises-serious-human-rights-concerns-over-australias-india-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31748","title":{"rendered":"UN raises serious human rights concerns over Australia\u2019s India travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Nobody\u2019s going to be jailed \u2026 at this time,\u2019 deputy PM Michael McCormack says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2021\/may\/05\/australia-news-live-india-community-talks-alex-hawke-cricket-vaccine-gps-shortfall-astrazeneca?page=with:block-6091c5c68f08235e51f1e79d#liveblog-navigation\">Follow the Australia news live blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/05\/australias-indian-doctors-ask-could-i-have-made-a-difference\">Could I have made a difference? What Australia\u2019s Indian doctors are asking themselves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/04\/scott-morrison-lectured-the-states-against-snap-border-closures-now-hes-done-exactly-that\">Katharine Murphy: PM lectured the states against snap border closures \u2013 now he\u2019s done exactly that<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UN human rights officials have raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d about the Morrison government\u2019s ban on Australians returning from India, and the severe penalties attached to breaches.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has questioned whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/03\/australias-india-travel-ban-does-the-health-justification-stack-up-and-is-the-move-legal\">controversial temporary measure<\/a> \u2013 which can attract maximum penalties of five years\u2019 imprisonment or $66,600 \u2013 is consistent with Australia\u2019s human rights obligations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/05\/un-raises-serious-human-rights-concerns-over-australia-india-travel-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Nobody\u2019s going to be jailed \u2026 at this time,\u2019 deputy PM Michael McCormack saysFollow the Australia news live blogCould I have made a difference? What Australia\u2019s Indian doctors are asking themselvesKatharine Murphy: PM lectured the states against snap &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[961,43,2157,324,1066,53,62,618,61,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-australia-news","category-australian-citizenship","category-australian-politics","category-coronavirus","category-human-rights","category-india","category-michael-mccormack","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions\/31749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}