{"id":12947,"date":"2020-01-15T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/australian-journalist-scott-mcintyre-gets-suspended-sentence-over-search-for-his-children-japan"},"modified":"2020-01-15T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:12:55","slug":"australian-journalist-gets-suspended-sentence-over-search-for-his-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12947","title":{"rendered":"Australian journalist gets suspended sentence over search for his children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese court convicted Scott McIntyre of trespassing in attempt to find children<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/scott-mcintyre\">Scott McIntyre<\/a>, a former sports reporter for Australia\u2019s SBS network, has been given a suspended prison sentence in Tokyo after being found guilty of trespassing during an attempt to locate his children, whom he has not seen for eight months.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian freelance journalist, who is based in the Japanese capital, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/former-sbs-reporter-scott-mcintyre-arrested-in-japan-reportedly-over-search-for-his-children\">arrested<\/a> in late November, a month after allegedly gaining unauthorised access to the common area of the apartment building where his parents-in-law live.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/australian-journalist-scott-mcintyre-gets-suspended-sentence-over-search-for-his-children-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese court convicted Scott McIntyre of trespassing in attempt to find childrenScott McIntyre, a former sports reporter for Australia\u2019s SBS network, has been given a suspended prison sentence in Tokyo after being found guilty of trespassing during a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,43,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-japan","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\/12947","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12948,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/12948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}