{"id":21438,"date":"2020-08-06T22:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/china-canada-drug-charges-death-sentence"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:55:02","slug":"china-sentences-third-canadian-to-death-over-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21438","title":{"rendered":"China sentences third Canadian to death over drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court in Guangzhou announced Xu Weihong\u2019s penalty and said an alleged accomplice had been given a life sentence<\/p>\n<p>China has sentenced a third Canadian citizen to death on drug charges amid a steep decline in relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>A court in Guangzhou announced Xu Weihong\u2019s penalty on Thursday and said an alleged accomplice, Wen Guanxiong, had been given a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/china-canada-drug-charges-death-sentence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court in Guangzhou announced Xu Weihong\u2019s penalty and said an alleged accomplice had been given a life sentenceChina has sentenced a third Canadian citizen to death on drug charges amid a steep decline in relations between the two countries.A court in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"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":[246,41,244,50,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","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\/21438","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\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438\/revisions\/21439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}