{"id":15108,"date":"2020-02-27T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/gui-minhais-daughter-says-china-buried-his-sentence-amid-coronavirus-outbreak"},"modified":"2020-02-27T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:14:12","slug":"gui-minhais-daughter-says-china-buried-his-sentence-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15108","title":{"rendered":"Gui Minhai&#8217;s daughter says China &#8216;buried&#8217; his sentence amid coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Gui says her bookseller father\u2019s 10-year sentence was pushed through in the hope it would go \u2018unnoticed\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of jailed Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai has said she believes authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/gui-minhai-detained-hong-kong-bookseller-jailed-for-10-years-in-china\">purposefully announced his harsh sentence<\/a> \u2013 10 years in prison for espionage &#8211; during the coronavirus outbreak in hopes that it would go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Gui, who has been advocating for her father, a China-born Swedish citizen, since he was abducted from Thailand in 2015, said she was told last year that a trial would soon take place. In a meeting with Sweden\u2019s former ambassador and two men who said they could arrange her father\u2019s release, Gui was pressured to stop speaking out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/gui-minhais-daughter-says-china-buried-his-sentence-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Gui says her bookseller father\u2019s 10-year sentence was pushed through in the hope it would go \u2018unnoticed\u2019The daughter of jailed Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai has said she believes authorities purposefully announced his harsh sentence \u2013 10 years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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":[41,50,1069,53,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-human-rights","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\/15108","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108\/revisions\/15109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}