{"id":289517,"date":"2021-08-27T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=62584"},"modified":"2021-08-27T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:00:55","slug":"arrested-doctor-claims-fiji-police-acted-irresponsibly-over-covid-safety-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/27\/arrested-doctor-claims-fiji-police-acted-irresponsibly-over-covid-safety-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested doctor claims Fiji police acted \u2018irresponsibly\u2019 over covid safety rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a> newsdesk<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Arrested medical practitioner Dr Jone Hawea has claimed that Fiji police officers acted irresponsibly by not following to covid-19 safety protocols and exposed him to transmission of the disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fijitimes.com\/raj-doctor-claimed-officers-acted-irresponsibly\/\">reports <em>The Fiji Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji Human Rights Anti-Discrimination Commission director Ashwin Raj reported this after a commission team visited Dr Hawea at Totogo Police Station in Suva on Thursday, following his arrest in Lautoka on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been released.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/08\/26\/nfp-leader-accuses-fiji-government-of-creating-police-state-after-arrest\/\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> NFP leader accuses Fiji government of creating \u2018police state\u2019 after arrest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Hawea was being questioned and investigated for allegedly sharing misinformation regarding covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Raj said Dr Hawea was in sound health, but had expressed concerns about his safety and his right to health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Dr Hawea] has questioned the rationale behind his transfer from Lautoka Police Station to Totogo when the Suva-Nausori corridor, as he described to the commission, is a \u201chot spot\u201d for covid positive cases,\u201d Raj said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Risk of transmission&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cHe stated that some police officers acted irresponsibly by not adhering to the covid-19 safety protocols and exposing him to risk of transmission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raj also confirmed Dr Hawea had access to legal counsel. Questions sent to police spokeswoman Ana Naisoro remained unanswered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fijivillage.com\/news\/Dr-Hawea-released-from-custody-last-night-as-investigations-continue-fx48r5\/\">Fijivillage News reports<\/a> that Dr Hawea had been released from police custody on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The news website reported that the police stated that ordinary Fijians got arrested during curfew hours and Dr Hawea was no exception.<\/p>\n<p><em>Republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/08\/27\/arrested-doctor-claims-police-acted-irresponsibly-over-covid-safety-rules\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Arrested medical practitioner Dr Jone Hawea has claimed that Fiji police officers acted irresponsibly by not following to covid-19 safety protocols and exposed him to transmission of the disease, reports The Fiji Times. Fiji Human Rights Anti-Discrimination Commission director Ashwin Raj reported this after a commission team visited Dr Hawea at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,304,3444,5,495,2784,1230,1311,365,387,6,3723,12,403,13,14,312],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289517"}],"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\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289624,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289517\/revisions\/289624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}