{"id":1343,"date":"2014-06-09T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2014-06-09T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T18:00:14","slug":"china-lawyers-demand-access-to-activists-detained-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-lawyers-demand-access-to-activists-detained-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"China lawyers demand access to activists detained ahead of Tiananmen anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By AP News Jun 08, 2014 1:35PM UTC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdne.asiancorrespondent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rsz_ap129249818607.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China Tiananmen Anniversary<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heavy security blanketed central Beijing on the 25th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests on Wednesday, pre-empting any attempts to publicly commemorate one of the darkest chapters in recent Chinese history. Pic: AP<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Around 20 attorneys have gathered in a central Chinese city to demand access to several activists detained ahead of the politically sensitive 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square military suppression of protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent rights lawyer Li Fangping says the attorneys staged an overnight protest starting Friday outside the Zhengzhou city police bureau after authorities denied their requests to see their clients.<\/p>\n<p>Among the activists detained in Zhengzhou is well-known lawyer Chang Boyang. Chang has campaigned for the rights of migrant workers, HIV patients and children poisoned in a 2008 tainted milk scandal.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained May 27 as part of a string of prosecutions against artists, lawyers, scholars and journalists ahead of the June 4 Tiananmen anniversary amid intense government efforts to deter public commemorations.<br \/>\nFrom: http:\/\/asiancorrespondent.com\/123574\/china-lawyers-demand-access-to-detained-activists\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AP News Jun 08, 2014 1:35PM UTC China &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-lawyers-demand-access-to-activists-detained-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,95],"tags":[1350,94,101,332],"views":1059,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}