{"id":32489,"date":"2021-05-26T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/yang-hengjun-australian-writer-says-he-is-unafraid-of-suffering-and-torture-ahead-of-trial-in-china"},"modified":"2021-05-26T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T08:01:01","slug":"yang-hengjun-australian-writer-says-he-is-unafraid-of-suffering-and-torture-ahead-of-trial-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32489","title":{"rendered":"Yang Hengjun: Australian writer says he is unafraid of \u2018suffering and torture\u2019 ahead of trial in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter dictated from detention the democracy activist has urged a friend \u2018don\u2019t worry about me\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yang Hengjun, the Australian democracy activist who goes on trial for espionage in China on Thursday, says he is unafraid of the \u201csuffering and torture\u201d of a potential long prison sentence, and he wishes he could keep writing to \u201chelp China to understand the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dictated from detention, where he has been held more than two years and interrogated more than 300 times, he urged a friend \u201cdon\u2019t worry about me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/yang-hengjun-australian-writer-says-he-is-unafraid-of-suffering-and-torture-ahead-of-trial-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter dictated from detention the democracy activist has urged a friend \u2018don\u2019t worry about me\u2019Yang Hengjun, the Australian democracy activist who goes on trial for espionage in China on Thursday, says he is unafraid of the \u201csuffering and torture\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2211,"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":[41,43,645,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32489","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\/2211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32490,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32489\/revisions\/32490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}