{"id":55055,"date":"2023-05-12T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/12\/chinese-activist-sentenced-to-eight-years-on-subversion-charges"},"modified":"2023-05-12T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:38:10","slug":"chinese-activist-sentenced-to-eight-years-on-subversion-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55055","title":{"rendered":"Chinese activist sentenced to eight years on subversion charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Maodong called it a \u2018score-settling\u2019 punishment for his two decades of rights advocacy<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese court has sentenced a prominent rights activist to eight years in jail on subversion charges in what he said was a \u201cscore-settling\u201d punishment for his two decades of rights advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Maodong, who goes by the pen name Guo Feixiong, was sentenced on Thursday by the Guangzhou intermediate people\u2019s court for \u201cinciting subversion of state power,\u201d his brother Yang Maoquan wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RightsLawyersCN\">social media<\/a>. Repeated phone calls to the court went unanswered on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/12\/chinese-activist-sentenced-to-eight-years-on-subversion-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Maodong called it a \u2018score-settling\u2019 punishment for his two decades of rights advocacyA Chinese court has sentenced a prominent rights activist to eight years in jail on subversion charges in what he said was a \u201cscore-settling\u201d punishment for his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,50,53,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55055","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55056,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55055\/revisions\/55056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}