{"id":55842,"date":"2023-06-08T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/08\/uyghur-student-convicted-posting-protests-video-wechat-kamile-wayit"},"modified":"2023-06-08T23:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:41:15","slug":"uyghur-student-convicted-after-posting-protests-video-on-wechat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55842","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur student convicted after posting protests video on WeChat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamile Wayit, 19, sentenced in China for \u2018advocating extremism\u2019 by sharing footage of anti-lockdown unrest<\/p>\n<p>A Uyghur student who was detained in Xinjiang in December after posting a video on WeChat of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/we-just-want-to-live-in-a-normal-world-chinas-young-protesters-speak-out-and-disappear\">white paper<\/a>\u201d protests has been convicted of \u201cadvocating extremism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kamile Wayit, 19, was detained in Atush on 12 December the day after returning home from university in Henan, a province in central China. She has not been heard from since, but last week a spokesperson from China\u2019s ministry for foreign affairs confirmed to the Economist<em> <\/em>magazine that Wayit had been sentenced on 25 March \u201cfor the crime of advocating extremism\u201d. The spokesperson did not confirm the length of the sentence but it can be up to five years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/08\/uyghur-student-convicted-posting-protests-video-wechat-kamile-wayit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamile Wayit, 19, sentenced in China for \u2018advocating extremism\u2019 by sharing footage of anti-lockdown unrestA Uyghur student who was detained in Xinjiang in December after posting a video on WeChat of the \u201cwhite paper\u201d protests has been convicted of \u201cadv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,458,50,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842\/revisions\/55843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}