{"id":34504,"date":"2021-07-28T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/chinese-billionaire-pig-farmer-sun-dawu-jailed-for-provoking-trouble"},"modified":"2021-07-28T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:08:09","slug":"chinese-billionaire-pig-farmer-jailed-for-provoking-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34504","title":{"rendered":"Chinese billionaire pig farmer jailed for \u2018provoking trouble\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agricultural  mogul Sun Dawu given 18-year sentence in case observers believe was politically motivated<\/p>\n<p>Sun Dawu, a Chinese billionaire pig farmer and agricultural mogul, has been sentenced after weeks of hearings in secret to 18 years in prison and fined 3.11m yuan (\u00a3345,000) for a catalogue of crimes including \u201cprovoking trouble\u201d, in a case observers believe was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Gaobeidian, near Beijing, said Sun was guilty of crimes including \u201cgathering a crowd to attack state organs\u201d, \u201cobstructing government administration\u201d and \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d, a catch-all term often used against human rights figures and dissidents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/chinese-billionaire-pig-farmer-sun-dawu-jailed-for-provoking-trouble\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agricultural  mogul Sun Dawu given 18-year sentence in case observers believe was politically motivatedSun Dawu, a Chinese billionaire pig farmer and agricultural mogul, has been sentenced after weeks of hearings in secret to 18 years in prison and fin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/34504","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34504\/revisions\/34505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}