{"id":19533,"date":"2020-06-20T11:27:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/20\/eu-demands-release-of-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-jailed-for-four-years"},"modified":"2020-06-20T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:27:49","slug":"eu-demands-release-of-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-jailed-for-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19533","title":{"rendered":"EU demands release of Chinese human rights lawyer jailed for four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union says Yu Wensheng\u2019s right to a fair trial was not respected and also calls China national security laws in Hong Kong an \u2018assault\u2019 on freedom<\/p>\n<p>The EU has demanded the immediate release of a Chinese human rights lawyer sentenced to four years in jail, saying his right to a fair trial was not respected.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Wensheng was sentenced on Wednesday, after two years in detention, on charges of \u201cinciting subversion of state power\u201d, after penning an open letter calling for constitutional reforms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/20\/eu-demands-release-of-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-jailed-for-four-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union says Yu Wensheng\u2019s right to a fair trial was not respected and also calls China national security laws in Hong Kong an \u2018assault\u2019 on freedomThe EU has demanded the immediate release of a Chinese human rights lawyer sentenced to four years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,530,48,53,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-european-union","category-hong-kong","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\/19533","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19534,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions\/19534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}