The New Zealand parliament has passed a motion condemning the beating and torture of the two detainees in Fiji which is currently under investigation by the police.

The beating was revealed in the video that has been published on a number of internet sites.

The motion in the NZ parliament yesterday was introduced by the opposition Labor party’s foreign affairs spokesman Phil Goff and was passed unopposed.

The New Zealand parliament is now calling on the Fijian government to hold to account those responsible in the beating and to uphold international conventions which protect civil and political rights and oppose torture.        

Goff told Pacific Beat that this showed New Zealand’s stance.