{"id":17415,"date":"2020-04-21T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/us-urges-china-to-let-human-rights-lawyer-return-home-after-unjust-detention"},"modified":"2020-04-21T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:35:07","slug":"us-urges-china-to-let-lawyer-return-home-after-unjust-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17415","title":{"rendered":"US urges China to let lawyer return home after &#8216;unjust detention&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Quanzhang has been barred from reuniting with his family after serving nearly five years in prison for \u2018subversion\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The US has called for Chinese authorities to allow a prominent human rights lawyer to return home, after having spent almost five years in \u201cunjust detention\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Quanzhang was released two weeks ago after serving four-and-a-half years for \u201csubversion\u201d,<strong> <\/strong>but told Hong Kong\u2019s Cable TV on Monday that the authorities were still stopping him from returning home and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/19\/china-bars-lawyer-wang-quanzhang-from-going-home-after-prison-release\">being reunited with his family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/us-urges-china-to-let-human-rights-lawyer-return-home-after-unjust-detention\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Quanzhang has been barred from reuniting with his family after serving nearly five years in prison for \u2018subversion\u2019 The US has called for Chinese authorities to allow a prominent human rights lawyer to return home, after having spent almost five y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1233,"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":[41,50,53,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-us-news","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\/17415","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\/1233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17416,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions\/17416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}