{"id":19413,"date":"2020-06-17T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T01:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/karm-gilespies-death-sentence-labelled-diplomatic-leverage-deliberately-created-by-china"},"modified":"2020-06-17T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T01:44:40","slug":"karm-gilespies-death-sentence-labelled-diplomatic-leverage-deliberately-created-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19413","title":{"rendered":"Karm Gilespie&#8217;s death sentence labelled diplomatic leverage &#8216;deliberately created&#8217; by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verdict is political play at time of escalating tension with Australia, former detainees say<\/p>\n<p>The Australian man Karm Gilespie\u2019s death sentence is diplomatic leverage deliberately created by China, a former investigator who was detained in China for two years has said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-33490446\">Peter Humphrey<\/a>, a former fraud investigator and foreign correspondent who was <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2019\/12\/the-cruel-fate-of-michael-kovrig-and-michael-spavor-in-china\/\">detained in China with his wife from 2013 to 2015<\/a>, said it was inconceivable that the death sentence was unrelated to diplomatic tensions with Australia, and the sentence had \u201cnothing to do with the original case against him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/karm-gilespies-death-sentence-labelled-diplomatic-leverage-deliberately-created-by-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verdict is political play at time of escalating tension with Australia, former detainees sayThe Australian man Karm Gilespie\u2019s death sentence is diplomatic leverage deliberately created by China, a former investigator who was detained in China for two &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,43,324,50,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-drugs"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19414,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}