{"id":10979,"date":"2019-11-11T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/australian-retiree-convicted-of-terrorism-and-jailed-for-12-years-by-vietnamese-court"},"modified":"2019-11-11T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:23:16","slug":"australian-retiree-convicted-of-terrorism-and-jailed-for-12-years-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10979","title":{"rendered":"Australian retiree convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney man Chau Van Kham, 70, found guilty over his membership of the Viet Tan political party<\/p>\n<p>A Sydney retiree has been convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years by a Vietnamese court, in a judgment human rights advocates have described as \u201cessentially a death sentence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chau Van Kham, 70, was convicted and sentenced at his first appearance in the people\u2019s court of Ho Chi Minh City after more than 10 months in detention.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/australian-retiree-convicted-of-terrorism-and-jailed-for-12-years-by-vietnamese-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney man Chau Van Kham, 70, found guilty over his membership of the Viet Tan political partyA Sydney retiree has been convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years by a Vietnamese court, in a judgment human rights advocates have described as \u201cessent&#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":[41,43,355,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-sydney","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","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=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10980,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}