{"id":13155,"date":"2020-01-23T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/22\/huawei-protests-cfo-canada-trial-actors"},"modified":"2020-01-23T07:05:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:05:05","slug":"protesters-who-demanded-huawei-cfos-release-revealed-to-be-paid-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"Protesters who demanded Huawei CFO&#8217;s release revealed to be paid actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen people outside Vancouver courtroom with \u2018Free Meng\u2019 signs were promised C$100 for two hours\u2019 work on a movie<\/p>\n<p>Protesters calling for the release of a senior Chinese telecommunications executive arrested in Canada have admitted they were paid actors, in the latest twist in a closely-watched extradition case that has chilled relations between Ottawa and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen people joined a demonstration on Monday outside a Vancouver courtroom where Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jan\/21\/us-case-against-huaweis-meng-wanzhou-is-fiction-say-lawyers\">fighting extradition to the US for alleged fraud related to sanctions against Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/22\/huawei-protests-cfo-canada-trial-actors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen people outside Vancouver courtroom with \u2018Free Meng\u2019 signs were promised C$100 for two hours\u2019 work on a movieProtesters calling for the release of a senior Chinese telecommunications executive arrested in Canada have admitted they were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":864,"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":[246,41,291,6,244,50,1070,517,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-banking","category-business","category-canada","category-china","category-hsbc","category-huawei","category-protest","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","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\/864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13166,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}