{"id":76919,"date":"2026-04-03T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/03\/taiwan-opposition-ko-wen-je-17-year-prison-sentence"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:43:46","slug":"i-will-not-yield-taiwan-convulsed-by-17-year-prison-sentence-for-populist-opposition-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76919","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will not yield\u2019: Taiwan convulsed by 17-year prison sentence for populist opposition figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition Taiwan People\u2019s party stands by founder Ko Wen-je despite sentence, alleging prosecutors were pressured by ruling DPP party<\/p>\n<p>Opposition figure Ko Wen-je put on a defiant display in front of tens of thousands of supporters outside Taiwan\u2019s Presidential Office, two days after being handed a 17-year prison sentence on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not yield! I will not surrender!\u201d Ko shouted on Sunday in Taipei, as he turned towards the grand, red-brick Japanese colonial-era building in order to directly address President Lai Ching-te.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/03\/taiwan-opposition-ko-wen-je-17-year-prison-sentence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition Taiwan People\u2019s party stands by founder Ko Wen-je despite sentence, alleging prosecutors were pressured by ruling DPP partyOpposition figure Ko Wen-je put on a defiant display in front of tens of thousands of supporters outside Taiwan\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5241,"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":[41,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76919","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\/5241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76920,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76919\/revisions\/76920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}