{"id":52691,"date":"2023-02-17T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/fiji-opposition-leader-suspended-from-parliament-for-sedition"},"modified":"2023-02-17T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:36:04","slug":"fiji-opposition-leader-suspended-from-parliament-for-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52691","title":{"rendered":"Fiji opposition leader suspended from parliament for sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama, who launched a blistering attack on the president on Monday, was suspended for three years<\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s opposition leader and its long-serving former prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has been suspended from parliament for three years for sedition and insulting the president.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension came days after he launched an extraordinary verbal attack on the country\u2019s president, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lavenia Lativerata-Vuadreu works for Mai TV in Fiji<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/fiji-opposition-leader-suspended-from-parliament-for-sedition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama, who launched a blistering attack on the president on Monday, was suspended for three yearsFiji\u2019s opposition leader and its long-serving former prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has been suspended from parliament for three years for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"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-52691","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\/52691","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\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions\/52692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}