{"id":11468,"date":"2019-11-25T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/china-cables-uighur-man-10-year-sentence-shows-harsh-reality-of-chinese-repression"},"modified":"2019-11-25T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:00:29","slug":"uighur-mans-10-year-sentence-shows-harsh-reality-of-chinese-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11468","title":{"rendered":"Uighur man&#8217;s 10-year sentence shows harsh reality of Chinese repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court transcript offers insight into nature and extent of crackdown on ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/china-cables-leak-no-escapes-reality-china-uighur-prison-camp\">Reality of China\u2019s vast prison camp network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2019\/nov\/24\/china-cables-instructions-on-how-to-run-a-chinese-detention-centre-annotated-document\">Secret memo on how to run camps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In late 2016, a 47-year-old Uighur employed on a road-building crew in China\u2019s western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xinjiang\">Xinjiang<\/a> region started hectoring his co-workers about their behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>He warned them against watching porn or swearing, badgered them not to eat food cooked by non-Muslims, smokers or people who drink alcohol, and made offensive slurs against the country\u2019s majority Han ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>In most countries, his remarks would have simply marked him out as a bigot and religious bore. But in China, the state viewed them \u2013 and him \u2013 far more harshly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/china-cables-uighur-man-10-year-sentence-shows-harsh-reality-of-chinese-repression\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court transcript offers insight into nature and extent of crackdown on ethnic minority groups in XinjiangReality of China\u2019s vast prison camp networkSecret memo on how to run campsIn late 2016, a 47-year-old Uighur employed on a road-building crew in Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":722,"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":[41,50,67,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468","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\/722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}