{"id":7851,"date":"2019-08-27T09:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/australian-writer-yang-hengjun-charged-spying-china"},"modified":"2019-08-27T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:45:57","slug":"australian-writer-yang-hengjun-charged-with-spying-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7851","title":{"rendered":"China espionage charges: Australian Yang Hengjun &#8216;not a spy&#8217; says foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers and campaigners express anxiety for writer and former diplomat, who has been detained for seven months<\/p>\n<p>Yang Hengjun was not a spy for Australia, foreign minister Marise Payne has insisted, after the Australian writer was formally charged with espionage in Beijing, potentially facing the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no basis for any allegation Dr Yang was spying for the Australian government,\u201d Payne told the Guardian after the 54-year-old Australian was formally charged, seven months after first being detained in Guangzhou.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/australian-writer-yang-hengjun-charged-spying-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers and campaigners express anxiety for writer and former diplomat, who has been detained for seven monthsYang Hengjun was not a spy for Australia, foreign minister Marise Payne has insisted, after the Australian writer was formally charged with es&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,43,645,50,53,325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-human-rights","category-marise-payne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}