{"id":60026,"date":"2023-11-22T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/22\/xi-critic-who-fled-on-jetski-to-south-korea-will-die-if-sent-back-to-china-says-father"},"modified":"2023-11-22T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:59:07","slug":"xi-critic-who-fled-on-jetski-to-south-korea-will-die-if-sent-back-to-china-says-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60026","title":{"rendered":"Xi critic who fled on jetski to South Korea will die if sent back to China, says father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears South Korean court will impose harsh penalty on Kwon Pyong to appease Beijing<\/p>\n<p>The father of a Chinese dissident detained in South Korea said his son will die if he is sent back to China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/chinese-dissident-xi-jinping-critic-flees-south-korea-jetski\">a country he escaped from on a jetski<\/a> in a life-threatening journey in August.<\/p>\n<p>A court in South Korea will decide on Thursday the fate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/chinese-dissident-xi-jinping-critic-flees-south-korea-jetski\">Kwon Pyong<\/a>, who is charged with violating the immigration control act. Kwon, 35, pleaded guilty and appealed for leniency as prosecutors requested a sentence of two and a half years, which experts say is unusually harsh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/22\/xi-critic-who-fled-on-jetski-to-south-korea-will-die-if-sent-back-to-china-says-father\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears South Korean court will impose harsh penalty on Kwon Pyong to appease BeijingThe father of a Chinese dissident detained in South Korea said his son will die if he is sent back to China, a country he escaped from on a jetski in a life-threatening &#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":[41,458,50,53,86,494,222,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-human-rights","category-law","category-refugees","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026","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=60026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60032,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026\/revisions\/60032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}