{"id":6573,"date":"2021-01-10T06:58:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T06:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/10\/fresh-disturbance-at-christmas-island-detention-centre-due-to-inhumane-conditions-advocates-say"},"modified":"2021-01-10T06:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T06:58:55","slug":"fresh-disturbance-at-christmas-island-detention-centre-due-to-inhumane-conditions-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/10\/fresh-disturbance-at-christmas-island-detention-centre-due-to-inhumane-conditions-advocates-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh disturbance at Christmas Island detention centre due to ‘inhumane’ conditions, advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four days after compounds were set alight, detainees report another disturbance involving fire, rubber bullets and tear gas<\/p>

Further unrest among detainees on Christmas Island is due to the Australian government holding people in \u201cinhumane\u201d conditions, refugee advocates have said.<\/p>

There were riots on Tuesday night that resulted in two compounds being set alight<\/a> and advocates and detainees claim a further disturbance on Saturday evening involved fires, rubber bullets and the use of tear gas at the detention centre.<\/p>

Related: <\/span>Christmas Island detainees riot and set fire to buildings in protest against conditions<\/a> <\/p>

Related: <\/span>Keeping Biloela family locked up on Christmas Island cost Australia $1.4m last year<\/a> <\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four days after compounds were set alight, detainees report another disturbance involving fire, rubber bullets and tear gasFurther unrest among detainees on Christmas Island is due to the Australian government holding people in \u201cinhumane\u201d conditions, r…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,1730,1728,6,1206,238,1731],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573"}],"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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6574,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}