{"id":43115,"date":"2022-04-01T00:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/top-chinese-ex-official-removed-from-office-in-latest-purge-fu-zhenghua"},"modified":"2022-04-01T00:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:54:24","slug":"chinese-communist-party-expels-former-justice-minister-in-latest-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43115","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Communist party expels former justice minister in latest purge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fu Zhenghua, who had brought down ex security chief for corruption, denounced as \u2018extremely despicable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has expelled its high-profile former justice minister and deputy police chief from the ruling Communist party, denouncing him as being \u201cextremely despicable\u201d and accusing him of befriending \u201cpolitical frauds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fu Zhenghua \u2013 who had reportedly helped bring down China\u2019s former security chief Zhou Yongkang a few years ago \u2013 has been removed from public office over serious violations of party discipline and laws, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20220331\/a6b710f5f9204a1a93d9db778c88e2e2\/c.html\">said the state news agency Xinhua<\/a> in a brief announcement that attributed the decisions to Beijing\u2019s top anti-graft body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/top-chinese-ex-official-removed-from-office-in-latest-purge-fu-zhenghua\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fu Zhenghua, who had brought down ex security chief for corruption, denounced as \u2018extremely despicable\u2019Beijing has expelled its high-profile former justice minister and deputy police chief from the ruling Communist party, denouncing him as being \u201cextre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"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-43115","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\/43115","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\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43115\/revisions\/43126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}