{"id":25079,"date":"2020-11-25T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/25\/china-dismisses-pope-franciss-comments-about-persecution-of-uighurs"},"modified":"2020-11-25T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:14:43","slug":"china-dismisses-pope-franciss-comments-about-persecution-of-uighurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25079","title":{"rendered":"China dismisses Pope Francis&#8217;s comments about persecution of Uighurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says pontiff\u2019s remarks have \u2018no factual basis\u2019 despite evidence a million of the Muslim minority group are being held in camps<\/p>\n<p>China has dismissed criticism of its treatment of Uighurs in a new book by Pope Francis in which he describes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/24\/pope-says-for-first-time-that-chinas-uighurs-are-persecuted\">\u201cpersecution\u201d of the Muslim minority group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, said Francis\u2019 remarks had \u201cno factual basis at all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/25\/china-dismisses-pope-franciss-comments-about-persecution-of-uighurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says pontiff\u2019s remarks have \u2018no factual basis\u2019 despite evidence a million of the Muslim minority group are being held in campsChina has dismissed criticism of its treatment of Uighurs in a new book by Pope Francis in which he describes the \u201cper&#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":[368,50,53,754,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-china","category-human-rights","category-pope-francis","category-uighurs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25079","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=25079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25079\/revisions\/25080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}