{"id":10634,"date":"2019-11-01T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/yang-hengjun-australian-writer-detained-in-china-proclaims-innocence-as-health-deteriorates"},"modified":"2019-11-01T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:00:18","slug":"yang-hengjun-australian-writer-subjected-to-absurd-interrogation-in-china-as-health-deteriorates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10634","title":{"rendered":"Yang Hengjun: Australian writer subjected to &#8216;absurd&#8217; interrogation in China as health&nbsp;deteriorates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Democracy advocate suffers from serious health conditions and is only allowed one shower a week<\/p>\n<p>Detained Australian writer Dr Yang Hengjun has insisted he is innocent of the espionage allegations made against him and told Chinese authorities he has never been a spy for any government. But his isolated incarceration in Beijing \u2013 potentially facing the death penalty \u2013 remains indeterminate.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, a former diplomat turned globally influential blogger and advocate for democracy, was arrested when he arrived in China on 18 January this year. He is being detained by the Ministry of State Security, charged with one count of espionage. There is no indication when, if at all, he will face court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/yang-hengjun-australian-writer-detained-in-china-proclaims-innocence-as-health-deteriorates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Democracy advocate suffers from serious health conditions and is only allowed one shower a weekDetained Australian writer Dr Yang Hengjun has insisted he is innocent of the espionage allegations made against him and told Chinese authorities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,645,324,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10635,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions\/10635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}