{"id":26774,"date":"2021-01-13T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group"},"modified":"2021-01-13T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","slug":"china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26774","title":{"rendered":"China in darkest period for human rights since Tiananmen, says rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn Beijing<\/p>\n<p>China is in the midst of its darkest period for human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Human Rights Watch has said in its annual report.<\/p>\n<p>But 2020 was also the year that world governments found \u201csafety in numbers\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/chinas-actions-are-a-reflection-of-confidence-and-xi-jinpings-iron-grip\">push back on China\u2019s policies of repression<\/a>, with less fear of retaliation, it said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn BeijingChina is in the midst of its darkest period for human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Human Rights Watch has said i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1685,"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":[41,50,48,53,67,84,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-uighurs","category-united-nations","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26774","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\/1685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26774\/revisions\/26775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}