{"id":834242,"date":"2022-10-10T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/11\/barbaric-practices-still-an-issue-in-victorian-prisons-human-rights-advocates-say"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:30:26","slug":"barbaric-practices-still-used-in-victorian-prisons-human-rights-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/10\/barbaric-practices-still-used-in-victorian-prisons-human-rights-advocates-say\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Barbaric\u2019 practices still used in Victorian prisons, human rights advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrews government urged to establish independent watchdog to comply with anti-torture obligations ratified by Australia in 2017<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/oct\/11\/australia-news-live-melbourne-airport-evacuated-security-breach-warren-mundine-lidia-thorpe-indigenous-voice-land-tax-nsw-stamp-duty-politics\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li><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\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?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><\/ul><p>The Victorian government is facing calls to establish an independent watchdog to scrutinise solitary confinement and strip-searches in the state\u2019s prisons in an effort to prevent human rights abuses.<\/p><p>In the lead-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/victoria-state-election-2022\">November state election<\/a>, the Human Rights Law Centre has urged the government to establish the body as part of its obligations under the UN\u2019s anti-torture treaty that Australia ratified almost five years ago.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/11\/barbaric-practices-still-an-issue-in-victorian-prisons-human-rights-advocates-say\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/11\/barbaric-practices-still-an-issue-in-victorian-prisons-human-rights-advocates-say\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrews government urged to establish independent watchdog to comply with anti-torture obligations ratified by Australia in 2017Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,2674,37917,6,1206,438,2841,53350,38630],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834242"}],"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\/13954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834243,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834242\/revisions\/834243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}