{"id":40751,"date":"2022-01-18T01:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/they-treat-me-like-dirt-and-tortured-me-australian-activist-on-three-years-in-chinese-prisons"},"modified":"2022-01-18T01:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:30:32","slug":"they-treat-me-like-dirt-and-tortured-me-australian-activist-on-three-years-in-chinese-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40751","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They treat me like dirt and tortured me\u2019: Australian activist on three years in Chinese prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Hengjun was arrested in 2019 on espionage charges and his supporters fear he will be left to die of \u2018medical neglect\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian writer and democracy activist Dr Yang Hengjun\u2019s health is failing as he approaches three years imprisoned in China, say friends who fear he may not survive his incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday is the third anniversary of Yang\u2019s arrest at Guangzhou airport on allegations of espionage on behalf of an unnamed foreign country. He maintains his innocence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/they-treat-me-like-dirt-and-tortured-me-australian-activist-on-three-years-in-chinese-prisons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Hengjun was arrested in 2019 on espionage charges and his supporters fear he will be left to die of \u2018medical neglect\u2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralian writer and democracy activist Dr Yang Hengjun\u2019s health is failing &#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":[41,43,645,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40751","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=40751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40751\/revisions\/40752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}