{"id":1062,"date":"2015-10-29T03:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2015-10-31T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T13:45:27","slug":"amnesty-accuses-australia-of-paying-people-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty accuses Australia of paying people smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/boat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1063\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/boat-300x162.png\" alt=\"boat\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/boat-300x162.png 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/boat.png 306w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Amnesty International has used full-page ads in Australian newspapers to accuse border protection officials of illegally paying people smugglers and endangering lives in their efforts to prevent asylum seeker boats from reaching Australian shores.<\/p>\n<p>The London-based human rights group\u2019s extraordinary advertising campaign in Australia\u2019s largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday followed the release of a report on Wednesday condemning the government\u2019s highly secretive Operation Sovereign Borders, a flotilla that has all but stopped asylum seeker boats from reaching Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government has rejected the report and denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty claims that Australian officials were \u201ccomplicit in a transnational crime\u201d in May when they paid people smugglers $32,000 to take a boat carrying 65 asylum seekers bound for New Zealand to an Indonesian port.<\/p>\n<p>Source: PT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International has used full-page ads in Australian newspapers to accuse border protection officials 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