{"id":769449,"date":"2022-08-05T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/aug\/06\/coalition-used-private-contractor-to-collect-intelligence-on-nauru-asylum-seekers"},"modified":"2022-08-05T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:00:09","slug":"coalition-used-private-contractor-to-collect-intelligence-on-nauru-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/05\/coalition-used-private-contractor-to-collect-intelligence-on-nauru-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition used private contractor to collect intelligence on Nauru asylum seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: asylum seekers in the offshore detention centre who had contact with Australian journalists, lawyers and advocates were closely watched, documents reveal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Australian government used private security contractors to collect intelligence on asylum seekers on Nauru, singling out those who were speaking to journalists, lawyers and refugee advocates, internal documents from 2016 reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence officers working for Wilson Security compiled fortnightly reports about asylum seekers \u201cof interest\u201d, including individuals flagged as having \u201clinks with [Australian] media\u201d, \u201ccontact with lawyers in Australia\u201d or \u201ccontacts with Australian advocates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/aug\/06\/coalition-used-private-contractor-to-collect-intelligence-on-nauru-asylum-seekers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: asylum seekers in the offshore detention centre who had contact with Australian journalists, lawyers and advocates were closely watched, documents revealGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe Australian govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,1729,1730,6,242,524,238,142,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769449"}],"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\/4997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769622,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769449\/revisions\/769622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}