{"id":15553,"date":"2020-03-08T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T04:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/08\/china-activist-who-called-xi-clueless-on-coronavirus-faces-years-in-jail-for-subversion"},"modified":"2020-03-08T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T04:40:31","slug":"china-activist-who-called-xi-clueless-on-coronavirus-faces-years-in-jail-for-subversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15553","title":{"rendered":"China activist who called Xi clueless on coronavirus faces years in jail for &#8216;subversion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xu Zhiyong is being held in secret detention and has been denied access to a lawyer, say friends<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Chinese activist detained for criticising President Xi Jinping\u2019s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is being held on a state security charge that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail, his friends said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Xu Zhiyong, a former law lecturer and founder of the social campaign New Citizens Movement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/17\/chinese-activist-arrested-xi-jinping-clueless-coronavirus-xu-zhiyong\">was taken away by police on 15 February<\/a> during a fresh crackdown on freedom of speech precipitated by the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/08\/china-activist-who-called-xi-clueless-on-coronavirus-faces-years-in-jail-for-subversion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xu Zhiyong is being held in secret detention and has been denied access to a lawyer, say friendsA prominent Chinese activist detained for criticising President Xi Jinping\u2019s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is being held on a state security charge t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,1069,457,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-freedom-of-speech","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15554,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions\/15554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}