{"id":41270,"date":"2022-02-01T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/01\/this-is-not-justice-chinese-activists-held-for-two-years-await-trial"},"modified":"2022-02-01T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T05:00:09","slug":"this-is-not-justice-chinese-activists-held-for-two-years-await-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41270","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is not justice\u2019: Chinese activists held for two years await trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong  expected to be charged with involvement in a covert meeting in late 2019<\/p>\n<p>As millions of Chinese families gather this week to celebrate the arrival of the year of the tiger, Luo Shengchun is awaiting news of the fate of her husband, Ding Jiaxi, a human rights lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the third year that our family hasn\u2019t celebrated the Chinese new year. I don\u2019t know what celebrating new year means now,\u201d said Luo, who now lives in self-imposed exile in New York. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond devastating for my family. My husband has not done anything illegal. Why did they deprive us of a normal life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/01\/this-is-not-justice-chinese-activists-held-for-two-years-await-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong  expected to be charged with involvement in a covert meeting in late 2019As millions of Chinese families gather this week to celebrate the arrival of the year of the tiger, Luo Shengchun is awaiting news of the fate of her hus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2858,"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-41270","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\/41270","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\/2858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41270\/revisions\/41348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}