{"id":75303,"date":"2025-11-25T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/25\/nauru-president-floats-returning-nzyq-refugees-to-home-countries-in-interview-australia-tried-to-suppress"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:54:09","slug":"nauru-president-floats-returning-nzyq-refugees-to-home-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75303","title":{"rendered":"Nauru president floats returning NZYQ refugees to home countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In newly translated excerpts of a February interview, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has begun deporting to his country are not refugees<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/nov\/25\/australia-politics-live-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-tanya-plibersek-domestic-violence-helpline-pauline-hanson-burqa-net-zero-labor-coalition-greens-question-time-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nauru may seek to return refugees from the NZYQ cohort to their home countries, the Nauruan president has said in a new translation of a February interview that has been the subject of months-long controversy.<\/p>\n<p>David Adeang\u2019s interview erroneously claimed those being sent to Nauru were not refugees and said Nauru may seek to return them to their countries of origin where possible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/25\/nauru-president-floats-returning-nzyq-refugees-to-home-countries-in-interview-australia-tried-to-suppress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In newly translated excerpts of a February interview, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has begun deporting to his country are not refugeesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or dai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5009,"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":[41,43,388,324,53,491,629,874,494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-human-rights","category-migration","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands","category-refugees"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75303","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\/5009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75303\/revisions\/75304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}