{"id":57856,"date":"2023-08-28T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/yang-hengjun-detained-australian-writer-fears-he-may-die-kidney-condition-china-jail"},"modified":"2023-08-28T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:00:11","slug":"detained-australian-writer-fears-he-may-die-of-kidney-condition-in-china-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57856","title":{"rendered":"Detained Australian writer fears he may die of kidney condition in China jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Hengjun has told supporters he is in pain from a cyst on his kidney that remains untreated<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun fears he could die in a Chinese prison from a worsening medical condition he says is not being properly treated.<\/p>\n<p>He has told supporters he is in pain from a large cyst on his kidney. The Australian government is being urged to intervene and secure, through diplomatic means, his release to Australia on medical parole.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/yang-hengjun-detained-australian-writer-fears-he-may-die-kidney-condition-china-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Hengjun has told supporters he is in pain from a cyst on his kidney that remains untreatedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDetained Australian writer Yang Hengjun fears he could die in a Chinese prison from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3909,"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":[41,43,645,324,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","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\/57856","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\/3909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57864,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57856\/revisions\/57864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}