{"id":36766,"date":"2013-07-24T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36766"},"modified":"2013-07-24T06:54:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:54:03","slug":"aljazeera-australia-to-probe-refugee-rape-claims-in-png","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/24\/aljazeera-australia-to-probe-refugee-rape-claims-in-png\/","title":{"rendered":"AlJazeera:  Australia to probe refugee rape claims in PNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is to investigate reports that asylum seekers at one of its detention camps in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are being raped and tortured.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Rudd, Australia&#8217;s prime minister, has said that no more boat-people will be allowed to resettle in Australia and unauthorised arrivals will be sent to camps in PNG, according to a new agreement between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Rudd said on Wednesday that the sinking of a refugee boat off the coast of West Java, Indonesia, on Tuesday evening justified his new offshore-processing policy, denounced by human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said on Wednesday that at least nine people, including children had died, and that 189 other suspected asylum seekers had been rescued. The search for survivors is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This &#8230; sends a very clear message to people smugglers to stop sending people by boat to Australia,&#8221; Rudd told a news conference in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2013\/07\/201372451716209209.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is to investigate reports that asylum seekers at one of its detention camps in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are being raped and tortured. Kevin Rudd, Australia&#8217;s prime minister, has said that no more boat-people will be allowed to resettle in Australia and unauthorised arrivals will be sent to camps in PNG, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36767,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36766\/revisions\/36767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}