{"id":19041,"date":"2020-06-07T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/07\/jailed-australian-democracy-activist-has-disappeared-inside-vietnams-prison-system"},"modified":"2020-06-07T05:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:00:32","slug":"jailed-australian-democracy-activist-has-disappeared-inside-vietnams-prison-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19041","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Australian democracy activist has &#8216;disappeared&#8217; inside Vietnam&#8217;s prison system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chau Van Kham\u2019s family has lost contact with him for nearly four months and fear the Australian government has \u2018forgotten about him\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A 70-year-old Australian democracy activist has \u201cdisappeared\u201d inside Vietnam\u2019s prison system: no one from his family or the Australian government has been allowed to see or speak with him for nearly four months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Human rights advocates, lawyers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/dec\/07\/please-bring-him-back-family-fear-australian-democracy-activist-will-die-in-vietnamese-jail\">Chau Van Kham\u2019s family<\/a> said the charges against him are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/terrorist-claim-against-australian-man-in-vietnam-absolutely-false-his-wife-says\">baseless and politically motivated<\/a>, his single-day multiple-defendant trial was grossly unfair, and his failing health means his 12-year prison sentence is \u201ceffectively a death sentence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/07\/jailed-australian-democracy-activist-has-disappeared-inside-vietnams-prison-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chau Van Kham\u2019s family has lost contact with him for nearly four months and fear the Australian government has \u2018forgotten about him\u2019A 70-year-old Australian democracy activist has \u201cdisappeared\u201d inside Vietnam\u2019s prison system: no one from his family or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[559,41,43,324,53,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-human-rights","category-vietnam","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\/19041","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19042,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041\/revisions\/19042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}