{"id":58628,"date":"2023-09-23T02:57:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/22\/chinese-dissident-tiananmen-square-vigils-flees-taiwan-chen-siming"},"modified":"2023-09-23T02:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:57:14","slug":"chinese-dissident-who-held-tiananmen-square-vigils-flees-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58628","title":{"rendered":"Chinese dissident who held Tiananmen Square vigils flees to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Siming posts video from Taoyuan airport saying he is seeking asylum from political persecution<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese dissident known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/we-cant-do-anything-china-accused-of-muffling-voices-of-hong-kong-supporters\">regularly commemorating<\/a> the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square has fled to Taiwan where he pleaded for help in seeking asylum in the US or Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted online on Friday, Chen Siming said he was in the transit area at Taoyuan international airport to escape Chinese political persecution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/22\/chinese-dissident-tiananmen-square-vigils-flees-taiwan-chen-siming\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Siming posts video from Taoyuan airport saying he is seeking asylum from political persecutionA Chinese dissident known for regularly commemorating the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square has fled to Taiwan whe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"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":[41,50,80,74,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest","category-taiwan","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/58628","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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58628\/revisions\/58629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}