{"id":50617,"date":"2022-11-28T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/bbc-says-chinese-police-assaulted-and-detained-its-reporter-at-shanghai-protest"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:30:20","slug":"bbc-says-chinese-police-assaulted-and-detained-its-reporter-at-shanghai-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50617","title":{"rendered":"BBC says Chinese police assaulted and detained its reporter at Shanghai protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Ed Lawrence was beaten after being arrested at a protest against China\u2019s strict Covid restrictions, broadcaster says<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police assaulted and detained a BBC journalist covering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anti-lockdown-protests-spread-across-china-amid-growing-anger-at-zero-covid-strategy\">a protest in Shanghai on Sunday<\/a>, releasing him after several hours, the broadcaster has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BBC is extremely concerned about the treatment of our journalist Ed Lawrence, who was arrested and handcuffed while covering the protests in Shanghai,\u201d a spokesperson for the British public service broadcaster said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/bbc-says-chinese-police-assaulted-and-detained-its-reporter-at-shanghai-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Ed Lawrence was beaten after being arrested at a protest against China\u2019s strict Covid restrictions, broadcaster saysChinese police assaulted and detained a BBC journalist covering a protest in Shanghai on Sunday, releasing him after several &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,1762,50,238,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bbc","category-china","category-media","category-press-freedom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50617","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50617\/revisions\/50638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}