{"id":1022264,"date":"2023-03-11T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/mar\/12\/sarah-copland-the-australian-mothers-relentless-fight-for-justice-after-her-sons-death-in-the-beirut-port-explosion"},"modified":"2023-03-11T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T23:00:32","slug":"sarah-copland-the-australian-mothers-relentless-fight-for-justice-after-her-sons-death-in-the-beirut-port-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/11\/sarah-copland-the-australian-mothers-relentless-fight-for-justice-after-her-sons-death-in-the-beirut-port-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Copland: the Australian mother\u2019s \u2018relentless\u2019 fight for justice after her son\u2019s death in the Beirut port explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say it\u2019s taken years of \u2018persistent and relentless lobbying\u2019 to secure call from UN for credible investigation<\/p><ul><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Sarah Copland, whose two-year-old son, Isaac, was killed in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, says the fight for justice has been gruelling.<\/p><p>This week marked a small breakthrough for the families of more than 200 people who died in the August 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/beirut-explosion\">Beirut port explosion<\/a>, amid accusations the authorities in Lebanon have repeatedly obstructed an investigation.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/21\/sign-up-for-five-great-reads-guardian-australias-wrap-of-our-best-summer-stories\">Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/mar\/12\/sarah-copland-the-australian-mothers-relentless-fight-for-justice-after-her-sons-death-in-the-beirut-port-explosion\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/mar\/12\/sarah-copland-the-australian-mothers-relentless-fight-for-justice-after-her-sons-death-in-the-beirut-port-explosion\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say it\u2019s taken years of \u2018persistent and relentless lobbying\u2019 to secure call from UN for credible investigationGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSarah Copland, whose two-year-old son, Isaac, was killed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,6,272,1258,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022273,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022264\/revisions\/1022273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}