{"id":629309,"date":"2026-10-13T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629309\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:28:16","slug":"fijis-justice-minister-resigns-after-explicit-video-appears-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629309\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji\u2019s Justice Minister resigns after explicit video appears on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Turaga, who was also the acting Attorney-General, was in New Zealand when the explicit video surfaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">He is the second senior minister in Rabuka\u2019s administration to get caught up in such a controversy. Fiji\u2019s Information Minister Lynda Tabuya had an intimate video leaked online in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Tabuya was initially suspended by Rabuka and moved to the backbench in early 2025, before being reinstated in August last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">RNZ Pacific has contacted Turaga via phone and email but has yet to receive a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The saga comes as the Rabuka Government tries to undertake a major constitutional reform process, including a national referendum touted for December and a general election by February 6, 2027 at the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turaga, who was also the acting Attorney-General, was in New Zealand when the explicit video surfaced. He is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,16425,73195,4636,26092,42,6148,6722,43,90,17363,40,38,41,39,416],"class_list":["post-629309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-appears","tag-explicit","tag-facebook","tag-fijis","tag-headlines","tag-justice","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-on","tag-resigns","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}