{"id":32635,"date":"2021-05-31T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/they-tortured-me-australian-yang-hengjun-says-as-he-awaits-verdict-after-trial-in-china"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:59:34","slug":"they-tortured-me-australian-yang-hengjun-says-as-he-awaits-verdict-after-trial-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32635","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They tortured me,\u2019 Australian Yang Hengjun says as he awaits verdict after trial in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian writer says he fears hidden cameras captured forced confessions during interrogations<\/p>\n<p>Yang Hengjun, the Australian writer facing espionage charges in China, told his secret trial in Beijing he is \u201c100% innocent\u201d but he has said he was tortured while being interrogated and fears forced confessions may be used against him.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, 55, faced a single-day trial on Thursday, held in secret, after more than two years in detention.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/they-tortured-me-australian-yang-hengjun-says-as-he-awaits-verdict-after-trial-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian writer says he fears hidden cameras captured forced confessions during interrogationsYang Hengjun, the Australian writer facing espionage charges in China, told his secret trial in Beijing he is \u201c100% innocent\u201d but he has said he was torture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,43,50,949],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-torture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32635","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32635\/revisions\/32636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}