{"id":42884,"date":"2022-03-25T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/25\/australian-journalist-chen-lei-to-face-court-in-beijing-on-thursday-sources-say"},"modified":"2022-03-25T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T10:49:09","slug":"australian-journalist-chen-lei-to-face-court-in-beijing-on-thursday-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42884","title":{"rendered":"Australian journalist Chen Lei to face court in Beijing on Thursday, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lei, who was detained in 2020, was arrested and charged with illegally supplying state secrets overseas \u2013 but her family have denied wrongdoing<\/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>An Australian journalist will face court in Beijing next Thursday on state secrets charges, after being detained for more than 19 months, sources close to the case say.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng Lei, who worked as a television anchor for Chinese state media for a decade before being detained in 2020, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/08\/australian-journalist-cheng-lei-formally-arrested-in-china-after-six-months-detention\">formally arrested a year ago<\/a> on allegations of illegally supplying state secrets overseas.<\/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\/mar\/25\/australian-journalist-chen-lei-to-face-court-in-beijing-on-thursday-sources-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lei, who was detained in 2020, was arrested and charged with illegally supplying state secrets overseas \u2013 but her family have denied wrongdoingGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAn Australian journalist will face court in Beijing next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42885,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions\/42885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}