{"id":60053,"date":"2023-11-23T22:51:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/23\/china-to-rule-appeals-ding-jiaxi-xu-zhiyong-detained-human-rights-lawyers"},"modified":"2023-11-23T22:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:51:41","slug":"china-to-rule-on-appeals-in-case-of-detained-human-rights-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60053","title":{"rendered":"China to rule on appeals in case of detained human rights lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong are leading figures in the thwarted New Citizens\u2019 Movement group of activists and lawyers<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese court is to rule in the appeals of detained human rights lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/outcry-over-lengthy-jail-terms-handed-to-china-human-rights-lawyers\">Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong<\/a>, as Ding\u2019s wife called on China\u2019s top judge to \u201crectify the miscarriage of justice\u201d in their case.<\/p>\n<p>Ding and Xu are leading figures in China\u2019s thwarted New Citizens\u2019 Movement, a loose network of activists and lawyers concerned with human rights and government corruption. In April, the men were sentenced to more than a decade in prison for subversion of state power, in a ruling that was criticised by the UN\u2019s human rights chief. Ding received a 12-year sentence, while Xu\u2019s was 14 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/23\/china-to-rule-appeals-ding-jiaxi-xu-zhiyong-detained-human-rights-lawyers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong are leading figures in the thwarted New Citizens\u2019 Movement group of activists and lawyersA Chinese court is to rule in the appeals of detained human rights lawyers Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong, as Ding\u2019s wife called on China\u2019s to&#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":[41,50,53,86,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-law","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\/60053","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=60053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60053\/revisions\/60054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}