{"id":197646,"date":"2021-06-09T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/10\/david-dungays-death-in-custody-to-be-taken-to-un-human-rights-committee"},"modified":"2021-06-10T04:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T04:21:18","slug":"united-nations-asked-to-look-into-the-death-in-custody-indigenous-man-david-dungay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/09\/united-nations-asked-to-look-into-the-death-in-custody-indigenous-man-david-dungay\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations asked to look into the death in custody Indigenous man David Dungay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson to argue Australia failed to protect Dungay\u2019s right to life and denied family justice for his 2015 death in Long Bay jail<\/p><p>International human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says there has been \u201cno proper investigation\u201d into the 2015 death in prison custody of Aboriginal man David Dungay and will take his case to the United Nations to force Australia to take action.<\/p><p>Robertson announced on Thursday he will lodge the complaint on behalf of the Dungay family at the UN human rights committee in Geneva.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/26\/aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-reports-to-be-increased-to-every-six-months-after-years-of-delays\">Aboriginal deaths in custody reports to be increased to every six months after years of delays<\/a> <\/p><p>My son had a right to live ... And I have the right to demand accountability and justice for what happened to David<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/ng-interactive\/2018\/aug\/28\/deaths-inside-indigenous-australian-deaths-in-custody\">Deaths inside: every Indigenous death in custody since 2008 tracked \u2013 interactive<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/10\/david-dungays-death-in-custody-to-be-taken-to-un-human-rights-committee\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/10\/david-dungays-death-in-custody-to-be-taken-to-un-human-rights-committee\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson to argue Australia failed to protect Dungay\u2019s right to life and denied family justice for his 2015 death in Long Bay jailInternational human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says there has been \u201cno proper investi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,10598,6,1853,2059,13082,13079,11668,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197646"}],"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\/3103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197942,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197646\/revisions\/197942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}