{"id":48768,"date":"2022-09-23T08:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T23:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/chinas-former-justice-minister-faces-life-in-prison-amid-purge-of-security-officials"},"modified":"2022-09-23T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T23:58:37","slug":"chinas-former-justice-minister-faces-life-in-prison-amid-purge-of-security-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48768","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s former justice minister faces life in prison amid purge of security officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fu Zhenghua, who had led several high-profile investigations into corruption, was accused of accepting bribes<\/p>\n<p>Former Chinese justice minister Fu Zhenghua, who had headed several high-profile investigations into corruption, has been jailed for life for accepting bribes, state media says, as a purge of officials intensified ahead of a key Communist party congress.<\/p>\n<p>Fu, 67, was handed a suspended death sentence that will be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, with no possibility of parole, according to state media on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/chinas-former-justice-minister-faces-life-in-prison-amid-purge-of-security-officials\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fu Zhenghua, who had led several high-profile investigations into corruption, was accused of accepting bribesFormer Chinese justice minister Fu Zhenghua, who had headed several high-profile investigations into corruption, has been jailed for life for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/48768","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48769,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48768\/revisions\/48769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}