Solomon Islands media are mounting pressure on Canberra to explain why it pursued former Attorney General Julian Moti, extraditing him on child sex charges.

Pacific Scoop:
Opinion – WSWS

Last week’s Queensland Supreme Court decision to throw out the prosecution of former Solomon Islands’ Attorney General Julian Moti on trumped up child sex charges is a major blow to the Australian government, its federal police and public prosecutors. The vicious five-year vendetta has cast light on Canberra’s filthy neo-colonial operations in the South Pacific, as well as the complicity of the entire political and media establishment—ranged across the official political spectrum, from the openly right wing to the ex-radical “left”.

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