{"id":3958,"date":"2015-04-01T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2015-04-01T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:31:00","slug":"nauru-refugee-victim-of-knife-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Nauru refugee victim of knife attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim2web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3959\" src=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim2web-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Knife victim2web\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim2web-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim2web.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An Iranian refugee has become the latest victim of anti-refugee violence on Nauru.<\/p>\n<p>Around 6am, yesterday morning (Tuesday, 31 March), the man was walking back into the Anabare lodge camp, when two local Nauruans approached on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The locals got off the bike, and attacked; one of them produced a knife and slashed the hand and upper arm of the Iranian man. (See photos.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim1web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3961\" src=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim1web-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Knife victim1web\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim1web-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Knife-victim1web.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>He was later treated in hospital. Nauruan police have taken a statement regarding the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on refugees have become increasingly common in the aftermath of the mass arrests of refugees who were peacefully protesting against offshore processing on 4 March.<\/p>\n<p>Although one man lost his eye in a rock-throwing attack last November, there are concerns that the knife attack could represent a new level of violence directed against refugees on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The knife attack follows a bashing of a refugee on Monday 30 March, when locals harassed two women who were walking with the man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nauruan refugees are the victims of offshore processing, twice over,&#8221; said Ian Rintoul, for the Refugee Action Coalition, &#8220;They were randomly selected and forcibly sent to Nauru and now they are becoming victims of resentful locals, encouraged by official mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation is untenable. Instead of protection, refugees now face increasing danger on Nauru itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian refugee has become the latest victim of anti-refugee violence on Nauru. Around 6am, yesterday morning (Tuesday, 31 March), the man was walking back into the Anabare lodge camp, when two local Nauruans approached on a motorcycle. The locals got off the bike, and attacked; one of them produced a knife and slashed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-3958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press-releases","8":"tag-nauru"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}