{"id":3296,"date":"2019-07-15T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/15\/death-of-barefoot-lawyer-puts-focus-on-chinas-treatment-of-political-prisoners"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:19:20","slug":"death-of-barefoot-lawyer-puts-focus-on-chinas-treatment-of-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"Death of &#8216;barefoot lawyer&#8217; puts focus on China&#8217;s treatment of political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics says Ji Sizun\u2019s fate shows prison terms in China are increasingly becoming death sentences<\/p>\n<p>In June, Ji Sizun received the news that he had won a prestigious human rights distinction, the Cao Shunli Memorial Award, in honour of the veteran Chinese activist who died in 2014 in police custody, after being denied needed medical treatment for months.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a little more than one month until he himself died while under the watch of state security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/15\/death-of-barefoot-lawyer-puts-focus-on-chinas-treatment-of-political-prisoners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics says Ji Sizun\u2019s fate shows prison terms in China are increasingly becoming death sentencesIn June, Ji Sizun received the news that he had won a prestigious human rights distinction, the Cao Shunli Memorial Award, in honour of the veteran Chines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,53,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","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\/3296","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}