{"id":34416,"date":"2021-07-26T18:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T09:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/26\/nine-fiji-opposition-mps-arrested-criticism-land-bill"},"modified":"2021-07-26T18:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T09:29:51","slug":"nine-fiji-opposition-mps-arrested-over-criticism-of-land-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34416","title":{"rendered":"Nine Fiji opposition MPs arrested over criticism of land bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detentions, including two former PMs, prompt fears government is using police as a \u2018political weapon\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nine prominent opposition politicians \u2013 including two former prime ministers \u2013 have been arrested in Fiji for voicing concerns about a contentious land bill, leading to fears the Fijian government is using the police as a \u201cpolitical weapon\u201d to intimidate and crack down on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Six members of parliament and three other high-profile politicians were taken into custody by the criminal investigations department on Sunday and Monday in relation to comments they had made regarding proposed amendments to a land bill, which is expected to be debated in parliament this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/26\/nine-fiji-opposition-mps-arrested-criticism-land-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detentions, including two former PMs, prompt fears government is using police as a \u2018political weapon\u2019Nine prominent opposition politicians \u2013 including two former prime ministers \u2013 have been arrested in Fiji for voicing concerns about a contentious land&#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":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/34416","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=34416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34417,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416\/revisions\/34417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}