{"id":3827,"date":"2019-07-19T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/19\/yang-hengjun-australia-deeply-disappointed-at-criminal-detention-of-writer-in-china"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T06:37:31","slug":"yang-hengjun-australia-deeply-disappointed-at-criminal-detention-of-writer-in-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3827","title":{"rendered":"Yang Hengjun: Australia &#8216;deeply disappointed&#8217; at criminal detention of writer in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Marise Payne says the government has expressed concern for Yang\u2019s welfare<\/p>\n<p>Foreign minister Marise Payne says the federal government is \u201cdeeply disappointed\u201d that Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been transferred to criminal detention in China, saying he should be released if he is being held \u201cfor his political views\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Payne issued a statement on Friday saying Australia had received formal notification from Chinese authorities of Yang\u2019s transfer to criminal detention. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/19\/yang-hengjun-australia-deeply-disappointed-at-criminal-detention-of-writer-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Marise Payne says the government has expressed concern for Yang\u2019s welfareForeign minister Marise Payne says the federal government is \u201cdeeply disappointed\u201d that Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been transferred to criminal detention &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"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":[41,43,50,325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-marise-payne"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}