{"id":8002,"date":"2019-08-28T23:01:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/29\/please-help-me-detained-australian-yang-hengjun-pleads-with-scott-morrison"},"modified":"2019-08-29T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T00:00:18","slug":"please-help-me-detained-australian-yang-hengjun-pleads-with-scott-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"Yang Hengjun: Scott Morrison says China&#8217;s spy claims &#8216;absolutely untrue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian citizen, potentially facing the death penalty on an espionage charge, begs PM to \u2018please help me\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Scott Morrison has called China\u2019s allegation that an Australian writer detained in Beijing is a spy \u201cabsolutely untrue\u201d after Yang Hengjun issued a plea to the Australian prime minister to \u201cplease help me go home as soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison said he respected China\u2019s sovereignty, \u201cbut we do expect Australians, indeed all citizens, to have their human rights appropriately looked after\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/29\/please-help-me-detained-australian-yang-hengjun-pleads-with-scott-morrison\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian citizen, potentially facing the death penalty on an espionage charge, begs PM to \u2018please help me\u2019Scott Morrison has called China\u2019s allegation that an Australian writer detained in Beijing is a spy \u201cabsolutely untrue\u201d after Yang Hengjun issue&#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":[41,43,645,324,50,667,325,386,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-espionage","category-marise-payne","category-scott-morrison","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\/8002","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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}