{"id":43069,"date":"2022-03-31T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/australian-ambassador-barred-from-beijing-security-trial-of-journalist-cheng-lei"},"modified":"2022-03-31T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:55:17","slug":"australian-ambassador-barred-from-beijing-security-trial-of-journalist-cheng-lei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43069","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador barred from Beijing spy trial of Australian journalist Cheng Lei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra protests as court verdict deferred after closed-door, one-day trial<\/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>A Chinese court has deferred its verdict after the closed-door national security trial of the Australian journalist Cheng Lei lasted less than a day.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign journalists and diplomats, including Australia\u2019s ambassador, were denied entry to the courtroom on Thursday as Cheng, a former anchor for the Chinese state TV broadcaster CGTN, faced trial on charges of \u201cillegally supplying state secrets overseas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/australian-ambassador-barred-from-beijing-security-trial-of-journalist-cheng-lei\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra protests as court verdict deferred after closed-door, one-day trialGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA Chinese court has deferred its verdict after the closed-door national security trial of the Australian journalist Cheng L&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,43,50,86,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-law","category-media","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\/43069","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43099,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43069\/revisions\/43099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}