{"id":21236,"date":"2020-08-01T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/01\/south-korean-sect-leader-arrested-for-obstructing-covid-19-investigation"},"modified":"2020-08-01T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T03:42:12","slug":"south-korean-sect-leader-arrested-for-obstructing-covid-19-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21236","title":{"rendered":"South Korean sect leader arrested for obstructing Covid-19 investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Man-hee\u2019s Shincheonji Church of Jesus was at the centre of an outbreak but police say he hid details on members and their movements<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/california-covid-19-deaths-coronavirus\">California sees record number of deaths on four separate days <\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Korean authorities have arrested the founder of a secretive Christian sect at the centre of the country\u2019s largest outbreak of Covid-19 infections for allegedly hiding crucial information from contact-tracers and other offences.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Man-hee is the powerful head of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/28\/were-treated-like-criminals-south-korean-sect-feels-coronavirus-backlash\">which is linked to more than 5,200 coronavirus infections<\/a>, or 36% of South Korea\u2019s total cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/01\/south-korean-sect-leader-arrested-for-obstructing-covid-19-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Man-hee\u2019s Shincheonji Church of Jesus was at the centre of an outbreak but police say he hid details on members and their movementsCalifornia sees record number of deaths on four separate days South Korean authorities have arrested the founder of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[1069,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21237,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions\/21237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}