{"id":1653,"date":"2014-06-19T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2014-06-19T18:42:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:42:48","slug":"china-jails-new-citizens-movement-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-jails-new-citizens-movement-activists","title":{"rendered":"China jails &#8216;New Citizens&#8217; Movement&#8217; activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">19 June 2014 Last updated at 00:04 ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/75632000\/jpg\/_75632500_70748843.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><br \/>\nThe activists with their banner<\/p>\n<p>New Citizens&#8217; Movement calls for more openness from the government<\/p>\n<p>Three Chinese anti-corruption activists have been given lengthy jail terms for urging officials to disclose wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Wei Zhongping and Liu Ping, associated with the New Citizens&#8217; Movement, were given six-and-a-half years in jail. A third activist, Li Sihua, received a shorter sentence. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rights group Amnesty International said the charges were &#8220;preposterous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s leaders are running a crackdown on corruption, but refuse to tolerate grassroots groups with similar aims.<\/p>\n<p>The three activists were detained after taking photographs with banners urging officials to disclose their assets.<\/p>\n<p>They were put on trial in a high-security court in Xinyu, Jiangxi province, late last year.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, defence lawyers complained of serious procedural problems and said they were not confident of the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>From\uff1a http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-27917234#TWEET1161342<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 June 2014 Last updated at 00:04 ET Th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-jails-new-citizens-movement-activists\">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":[35,429],"tags":[432,430,1357,431],"views":1844,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}