{"id":17320,"date":"2020-04-19T18:54:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/19\/china-bars-lawyer-wang-quanzhang-from-going-home-after-prison-release"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:54:31","slug":"china-bars-lawyer-from-going-home-after-prison-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17320","title":{"rendered":"China &#8216;bars lawyer from going home&#8217; after prison release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Quanzhang\u2019s wife fears Covid-19 may be used as pretext to keep him under house arrest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer barred from returning home after his prison release two weeks ago has been prohibited from reuniting with his family after a 14-day quarantine period<\/p>\n<p>Wang Quanzhang\u2019s wife and rights groups fear authorities are using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to hold him indefinitely under de facto house arrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/19\/china-bars-lawyer-wang-quanzhang-from-going-home-after-prison-release\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Quanzhang\u2019s wife fears Covid-19 may be used as pretext to keep him under house arrestCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA prominent Chinese human rights lawyer barred from returning home after his prison release two weeks &#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":[41,50,1069,53,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-human-rights","category-law","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\/17320","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=17320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17341,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions\/17341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}