{"id":639648,"date":"2022-05-05T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/06\/new-zealand-has-long-imprisoned-people-seeking-asylum-its-time-we-said-this-is-not-us-and-really-meant-it"},"modified":"2022-05-05T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T20:00:45","slug":"new-zealand-has-long-imprisoned-people-seeking-asylum-its-time-we-said-this-is-not-us-and-really-meant-it-golriz-ghahraman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/05\/new-zealand-has-long-imprisoned-people-seeking-asylum-its-time-we-said-this-is-not-us-and-really-meant-it-golriz-ghahraman\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand has long imprisoned people seeking asylum. It\u2019s time we said \u2018This is not us\u2019 and really meant it | Golriz Ghahraman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The independent Casey report calls for an end to arbitrary detention, and proper resettlement resources to treat asylum seekers as equal to quota refugees<\/p><p>The plight of asylum seekers is in sharp focus with heart-wrenching images of exhausted and terrified Ukrainian families forced into displacement. And while arriving at borders and seeking refuge is not new, the treatment of those forced to cross borders for asylum has rarely been so compassionate.<\/p><p>Even in a nation that prides itself on compassionate governance, an independent report into the detention of asylum seekers in New Zealand has found the worst of systemic abuse.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/06\/new-zealand-has-long-imprisoned-people-seeking-asylum-its-time-we-said-this-is-not-us-and-really-meant-it\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/06\/new-zealand-has-long-imprisoned-people-seeking-asylum-its-time-we-said-this-is-not-us-and-really-meant-it\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The independent Casey report calls for an end to arbitrary detention, and proper resettlement resources to treat asylum seekers as equal to quota refugeesThe plight of asylum seekers is in sharp focus with heart-wrenching images of exhausted and terrif&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,6,242,255,238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639648"}],"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\/15557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639649,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639648\/revisions\/639649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}