{"id":7514,"date":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/13\/human-rights-watch-warns-us-capitol-attack-should-be-wake-up-call-for-australia"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","slug":"human-rights-watch-warns-us-capitol-attack-should-be-wake-up-call-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/human-rights-watch-warns-us-capitol-attack-should-be-wake-up-call-for-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch warns US Capitol attack should be &#8216;wake-up call&#8217; for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global group urges the Morrison government to be vigilant about the growth of far-right extremism here<\/p><p>The Morrison government has been urged to treat the deadly mob assault on the US Capitol as \u201ca wake-up call\u201d, with a leading human rights organisation saying Australian security agencies must counter the growth of rightwing extremism.<\/p><p>Human Rights Watch published its annual global report on human rights abuses on Wednesday evening, calling on US allies such as Australia to work with the incoming Joe Biden administration to \u201cshore up a global defence of human rights\u201d.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/11\/australias-acting-pm-says-capitol-attack-unfortunate-and-condemns-twitter-censorship-of-trump\">Australia's acting PM says Capitol attack 'unfortunate' and condemns Twitter 'censorship' of Trump<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/26\/growing-far-right-threat-should-spark-new-approach-to-extremism-australian-expert-says\">Growing far-right threat should spark new approach to extremism, Australian expert says<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/13\/human-rights-watch-warns-us-capitol-attack-should-be-wake-up-call-for-australia\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/13\/human-rights-watch-warns-us-capitol-attack-should-be-wake-up-call-for-australia\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global group urges the Morrison government to be vigilant about the growth of far-right extremism hereThe Morrison government has been urged to treat the deadly mob assault on the US Capitol as \u201ca wake-up call\u201d, with a leading human rights organisation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,1730,49,1691,6,1853,2059],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514"}],"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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}