{"id":12416,"date":"2019-12-24T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/24\/secret-uzbek-court-to-sentence-ex-envoy-to-uk-accused-of-treason"},"modified":"2019-12-24T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:11:13","slug":"secret-uzbek-court-to-sentence-ex-envoy-to-uk-accused-of-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12416","title":{"rendered":"Secret Uzbek court to sentence ex-envoy to UK accused of treason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kadyr Yusupov\u2019s family believes his \u2018confession\u2019 that he spied for a foreign government was coerced <\/p>\n<p>A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the result of repression and a broken justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The trial of Kadyr Yusupov, a former top-ranking official who served in London in the early 2000s, was delayed for months while international observers and foreign journalists descended on Uzbekistan for last Sunday\u2019s parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/24\/secret-uzbek-court-to-sentence-ex-envoy-to-uk-accused-of-treason\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kadyr Yusupov\u2019s family believes his \u2018confession\u2019 that he spied for a foreign government was coerced A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":799,"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":[61,52,856,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-uzbekistan","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\/12416","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\/799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12434,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions\/12434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}