{"id":58610,"date":"2023-09-22T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/22\/trial-of-two-chinese-activists-held-since-2021-begins-in-secret-in-guangzhou"},"modified":"2023-09-23T00:52:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:52:22","slug":"trial-of-two-chinese-activists-held-since-2021-begins-in-secret-in-guangzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58610","title":{"rendered":"Trial of Chinese #MeToo journalist and labour rights activist begins in secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huang Xueqin, a feminist who was due to move to UK, and Wang Jianbing charged with \u2018inciting subversion of state power\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The trial of two prominent activists detained since 2021 has begun in secret in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, in a case that has attracted widespread attention to Beijing\u2019s repression of civil society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/16\/journalist-held-without-trial-china-urgent-medical-attention-huang-xueqin\">Huang Xueqin<\/a>, a feminist activist and journalist who covered China\u2019s #MeToo movement, and Wang Jianbing, a labour rights activist, were detained in Guangzhou in September 2021, shortly before Huang was due to move to the UK to study at the University of Sussex. The pair were charged with \u201cinciting subversion of state power\u201d the following month. The charge normally carries a sentence of up to five years, although terms can be longer in cases deemed severe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/22\/trial-of-two-chinese-activists-held-since-2021-begins-in-secret-in-guangzhou\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huang Xueqin, a feminist who was due to move to UK, and Wang Jianbing charged with \u2018inciting subversion of state power\u2019The trial of two prominent activists detained since 2021 has begun in secret in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, in a case that has att&#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":[559,41,50,669,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-journalist-safety","category-media","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\/58610","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=58610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58610\/revisions\/58634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}