{"id":12265,"date":"2019-12-19T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/chinas-ambassador-to-australia-says-reports-of-detention-of-1m-uighurs-fake-news"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:46:12","slug":"chinas-ambassador-to-australia-says-reports-of-detention-of-1m-uighurs-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12265","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s ambassador to Australia says reports of detention of 1m Uighurs &#8216;fake news&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng Jingye also says detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun\u2019s rights are being protected<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to Australia has labelled reports that one million Uighurs are being held in detention \u201cfake news\u201d, seeking to excuse mass incarceration as a deradicalisation measure.<\/p>\n<p>At a rare press conference at the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Cheng Jingye claimed the mass detention in Xinjiang province had \u201cnothing to do with human rights, nothing to do with religion\u201d and was \u201cno different\u201d from other countries\u2019 counter-terrorism measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/chinas-ambassador-to-australia-says-reports-of-detention-of-1m-uighurs-fake-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng Jingye also says detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun\u2019s rights are being protectedChina\u2019s ambassador to Australia has labelled reports that one million Uighurs are being held in detention \u201cfake news\u201d, seeking to excuse mass incarceration as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"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":[41,43,645,324,50,67,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","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\/12265","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\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12266,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions\/12266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}