{"id":16337,"date":"2020-03-25T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/china-set-to-to-indict-australian-academic-yang-henjun-on-espionage-charges"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:31:10","slug":"china-set-to-indict-australian-academic-yang-hengjun-on-espionage-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16337","title":{"rendered":"China set to indict Australian academic Yang Hengjun on espionage charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns grow over 54-year-old\u2019s interrogation and treatment while held in isolation with no consular or legal access<\/p>\n<p>China is preparing to formally indict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/05\/man-of-mysteries-yang-hengjun-his-spy-fiction-and-chinas-accusations-of-espionage\">Australian academic Dr Yang Hengjun<\/a> with espionage, a charge that potentially carries the death penalty, as concerns grow over his isolation and treatment in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, 54, has been imprisoned for more than 432 days, and, for the last three months, has been held in total isolation, allowed no contact with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/china-set-to-to-indict-australian-academic-yang-henjun-on-espionage-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns grow over 54-year-old\u2019s interrogation and treatment while held in isolation with no consular or legal accessChina is preparing to formally indict Australian academic Dr Yang Hengjun with espionage, a charge that potentially carries the death p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1154,"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":[41,43,645,50,53,86,325,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-human-rights","category-law","category-marise-payne","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\/16337","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\/1154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions\/16338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}