{"id":144329,"date":"2020-05-16T02:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/16\/take-him-down-fijis-prison-commissioner-accused-of-ordering-staff-to-beat-inmates\/"},"modified":"2020-05-16T02:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:39:25","slug":"take-him-down-fijis-prison-commissioner-accused-of-ordering-staff-to-beat-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=144329","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Take him down&#039;: Fiji&#039;s prison commissioner accused of ordering staff to beat inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Four former prison officers seeking asylum in Australia claim Francis Kean, brother-in-law of Fiji\u2019s PM, ran a brutal campaign of intimidation \u2018People come out worse\u2019: my time inside Fiji\u2019s broken prison systemFour former prison officers from Fiji are seeking asylum in Australia claiming the prime minister\u2019s brother-in-law, who is the commissioner of the corrections service, routinely ordered the beating and mistreatment of prisoners and at one point ordered them to assault a fellow staff member.Detailed accounts given to the Guardian by the four officers claim Francis Kean, a powerful figure inside Fiji, waged a brutal campaign of intimidation, coercion, bullying and violence on both prisoners and staff \u2013 which human rights campaigners say may amount to torture \u2013 with impunity. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/ex-officers-accuse-fijis-prison-commissioner-of-ordering-staff-to-beat-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Take him down&#039;: Fiji&#039;s prison commissioner accused of ordering staff to beat inmates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Four former prison officers seeking asylum in Australia claim Francis Kean, brother-in-law of Fiji\u2019s PM, ran a brutal campaign of intimidation \u2018People come out worse\u2019: my time inside Fiji\u2019s broken prison systemFour former prison officers from Fiji are seeking asylum in Australia claiming the prime minister\u2019s brother-in-law, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}