{"id":38935,"date":"2021-11-15T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/chinese-official-seeks-interpol-role-sparking-fears-for-dissidents"},"modified":"2021-11-15T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:10:46","slug":"chinese-official-seeks-interpol-role-sparking-fears-for-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38935","title":{"rendered":"Chinese official seeks Interpol role, sparking fears for dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups and politicians say Interpol risks being used as a vehicle for China\u2019s repressive policies<\/p>\n<p>A senior official at China\u2019s ministry of public security is seeking election to Interpol\u2019s executive committee, prompting concerns from human rights activists and international politicians that China could misuse the global criminal police organisation\u2019s capabilities to track down overseas dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>Hu Binchen, the deputy director-general of the ministry\u2019s international cooperation department, is one of three candidates vying for two seats as Asia delegates on the committee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/chinese-official-seeks-interpol-role-sparking-fears-for-dissidents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups and politicians say Interpol risks being used as a vehicle for China\u2019s repressive policiesA senior official at China\u2019s ministry of public security is seeking election to Interpol\u2019s executive committee, prompting concerns from human rights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,2421,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-interpol","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38935","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38935\/revisions\/38936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}