{"id":54236,"date":"2023-04-11T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/outcry-over-lengthy-jail-terms-handed-to-china-human-rights-lawyers"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T08:15:16","slug":"outcry-over-lengthy-jail-terms-handed-to-china-human-rights-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54236","title":{"rendered":"Outcry over lengthy jail terms handed to China human rights lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN rights chief voices concern over sentencing of Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong<\/p>\n<p>The UN human rights chief, Volker T\u00fcrk, has said he is \u201cvery concerned\u201d after China sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers to more than a decade each in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were convicted of subversion of state power after closed-door trials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/10\/china-jails-two-leading-human-rights-lawyers-after-closed-door-trial\">sentenced to 14 and 12 years<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/outcry-over-lengthy-jail-terms-handed-to-china-human-rights-lawyers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN rights chief voices concern over sentencing of Ding Jiaxi and Xu ZhiyongThe UN human rights chief, Volker T\u00fcrk, has said he is \u201cvery concerned\u201d after China sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers to more than a decade each in jail.Xu Zhiyong an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,50,53,86,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-law","category-united-nations","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\/54236","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54246,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54236\/revisions\/54246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}