{"id":11346,"date":"2019-11-21T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/21\/uk-criticised-for-its-treatment-of-worker-tortured-in-china"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:00:43","slug":"uk-criticised-for-its-treatment-of-worker-tortured-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11346","title":{"rendered":"UK criticised for its treatment of worker &#8216;tortured&#8217; in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cheng, a former UK consular employee, has only been offered a two-year visa<\/p>\n<p>Questions have been raised about Britain\u2019s treatment of a former UK consular worker from Hong Kong, who said he was asked to resign after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/former-uk-official-simon-cheng-in-hong-kong-tortured-in-15-day-china-ordeal\">detained and allegedly tortured<\/a> on a work trip to mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Cheng has been offered a two-year UK visa, but sources said it is a \u201cworking holiday\u201d type, which only allows him to spend 12 months employed and leaves him without a path to permanent residency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/21\/uk-criticised-for-its-treatment-of-worker-tortured-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cheng, a former UK consular employee, has only been offered a two-year visaQuestions have been raised about Britain\u2019s treatment of a former UK consular worker from Hong Kong, who said he was asked to resign after being detained and allegedly tort&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"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":[50,319,48,53,949],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-torture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions\/11347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}