{"id":19471,"date":"2020-06-18T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-yu-wensheng-jailed-for-four-years-says-wife"},"modified":"2020-06-18T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:13:15","slug":"chinese-human-rights-lawyer-jailed-for-four-years-says-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19471","title":{"rendered":"Chinese human rights lawyer jailed for four years, says his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentencing of Yu Wensheng behind closed doors comes after secret trial in May 2019 <\/p>\n<p>A Chinese court has secretly convicted and handed down a four-year jail sentence to one of China\u2019s most outspoken human rights lawyers, Yu Wensheng, on the charge of \u201cinciting subversion of state power\u201d, according to his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Yu\u2019s wife, Xu Yan, told the Guardian that she was informed by phone by the prosecutor\u2019s office in Xuzhou city in the eastern province of Jiangsu that her husband\u2019s term was ordered in a closed door sentencing on Wednesday morning. The Xuzhou city intermediate people\u2019s court also deprived Yu of his political rights, meaning he is barred from serving in public positions, publishing and speaking publicly, for three years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-yu-wensheng-jailed-for-four-years-says-wife\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentencing of Yu Wensheng behind closed doors comes after secret trial in May 2019 A Chinese court has secretly convicted and handed down a four-year jail sentence to one of China\u2019s most outspoken human rights lawyers, Yu Wensheng, on the charge of \u201cin&#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":[41,50,48,53,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","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\/19471","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=19471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19472,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions\/19472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}